Word: discontentment
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When Hope Died Our March 13 reporting from China related that growing numbers of farmers are demonstrating over land disputes, pollution and corrupt local officials. Can Beijing calm the rural discontent before it grows into a larger revolt? TIME's June 19, 1989, issue covered a mass protest that ended...
The bombings have given new urgency to the government's drive to pass a controversial antiterrorism law. "Terror never sleeps," Arroyo told legislators after the Jolo attack, calling for measures to "rid our country and the world of this grave threat." The law would allow authorities to detain terror suspects...
Though the two groups were embroiled in negotiation over a small issue, participants in the tussle say it reflected broader discontent with the University’s construction practices.
Professors said they designed the changes to respond to larger developments in the life sciences as well as to address student and faculty discontent with the construction of current concentrations.
The poll does not reveal the specific sources of students’ discontent with FAS or Summers. But it does suggest that—at a time when the national media has blasted FAS members—many undergraduates share the general impression that their professors mishandled the Summers storm...