Word: hating
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...this vast variety is regarded by its recipients with ambivalence, not to say schizophrenia. The plain fact is that Americans love the stuff as much as they hate it. Last year 92 million Americans responded to direct- market pitches, a 60% jump in just six years. According to Marketing Logistics of Lincolnshire, Ill., a direct-marketing publisher, a grand total of $183 billion was shelled out for mail-order purchases and donations. Curse it though Americans may, the great outpouring of third-class communication can provide an antidote to loneliness, access to hard-to-find goods and a convenient answer...
BUSINESS: Dress it up as direct mail or denounce it as junk, Americans love the wash of third-class tidings as much as they say they hate...
Then last week it became clear why. Anger could not be channeled into action; the crippling of the policy process begins with the electoral process. Hate mongering, deception and mudslinging are all widely deplored, and then used to great effect. How can voters fail to be cynical when politicians buy their jobs by selling favors and use the money to ensure that voters don't get much of a chance to punish them? Public opinion surveys around the nation registered disgust and sorrow at the processes by which lawmakers are elected and through which they govern. As long as American...
Kahane might have enjoyed the spectacle. He had managed to alienate even hard-line Zionists with his abrasive tactics and calls for the mass expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the occupied territories. But his message of hate and brutally simple solutions appealed to a small and dedicated constituency. Founder of the New York-based Jewish Defense League, Kahane moved to Israel in 1971, where he started the ultra-right Kach movement and was elected to the Knesset in 1984. Four years later the Israeli Supreme Court barred Kahane from running for re-election on the grounds that his movement...
Increasingly, though, it is the illegal aliens who are victims of violent assaults by whites. Armed robbers and overzealous U.S. Border Patrol agents ^ are responsible for countless beatings and shootings of immigrants at the frontier. But human-rights activists say San Diego's racial attacks are a microcosm of hate crimes flaring nationally. In one of several attacks involving white youths, Leonard Paul Cuen, 21, was questioned last May and remains a suspect in connection with the death of Emilio Jimenez, 12. The boy was shot as he crossed a field not far from the site of the protest...