Word: howling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abandoned the Haitians on their leaky rafts; he snubbed the unions by sticking to NAFTA and forgetting to raise the minimum wage; he cowered before the mining and timber interests. He felt for the underdog, as he never tired of telling us, but whenever the overdogs began to howl, he obediently rushed back toward the right...
...BOTTOM LINE: The men's movement might howl at the moonshine, but George Wendt fans get to chortle once more...
...nutshell, is the view of corporate America, which continues to cling to its massive compensation packages in spite of lower earnings and large layoffs. Now, however, after years of insisting on their right to pay themselves what they think they are worth, corporate executives face a rising howl of protest they may not be able to ignore. And their favorite form of income -- the stock option, which makes up as much as 90% of their total pay -- is a major target...
...Dances with Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans and A River Runs Through It, viewed by urban audiences sitting elbow-to-elbow in the dark. Most will never know what it is to be dwarfed by an old-growth forest, spy brook trout sipping mayflies or hear a wolf howl. For many, such subtle communion has been replaced by the stridency of environmentalism, a full-blown crusade, and by dire appeals on behalf of distant rain forests and a bestiary of endangered species. In these alliances, those remote from nature draw comfort that though embattled, the wild still exists...
...enterprising writer like Jamaica Kincaid, who is lecturing here this semester, has been able to spin gold from the flax of her colonial experience. Almost her entire body of work is an unrelenting howl of agony about the inequities of power...