Word: disillusionment
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The truckers who blocked the highways are the most recent and visible protesters. Airline pilots, upset by job cutbacks, threaten a Christmas boycott. Wherever one travels, there is a feeling of disillusion among the groups now being touched by crisis and material shortage. Bankers and finance men in Western cities...
In order to reverse such trends, a minimal level of national confidence needs to be restored to a cynically on-looking public, who just now may be feeling intolerably "wised up" - but no wiser. Did the group polled see any hope? Surprisingly enough, the answer is yes. Fully 86% of...
What stands now between Nixon and impeachment, suggest some of the opinion diagnosticians, is a thin tissue of personal well-being felt by most Americans. They still have it pretty good, and they don't want a change. But if too many of them lose their jobs or their...
Not in dispute is what the two incidents dramatically demonstrate: the ten-month-old Viet Nam cease-fire has failed to silence the guns. Early this month, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu told a National Day audience that "the hope [for peace] entertained by this nation...
Fear of recession, persistently high prices and disillusion with Administration economic policies are causing more and more Americans to view the economic future with a deepening sense of worry. This growing uncertainty was underscored last week by a report on the University of Michigan's latest survey of consumer...