Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experienced an extreme recession; unemployment has hit ten per cent and is rising at the rate of 100,000 per year, a substantial figure in a nation of 14 million people. The crucial ship-building industry, hit hard by Japanese competition, has suffered most of all. So when the Nationalist government of Taiwan approached the largest Dutch ship-building firm with a contract for two submarines in May, the company jumped at the offer and its promise of 3000 jobs. After brief consultations with government officials, the deal was approved...
...inequality between the nations has produced strong nationalist feelings in Canada and prompted some to advocate tighter national control over natural resources and industry...
...most amusing pieces ever written about a small boy's anger over having to share his mother with her husband. Guests of the Nation suppresses anger with a disillusionment that teeters on mawkishness. Belcher and Awkins are two British soldiers who have become rather friendly with their Irish nationalist captors. The order to execute the pair is carried out with misgivings, especially since the condemned men remain amiable to the end. It is not quite believable, and the use of dialect is stagy. Yet the story retains power because O'Connor's honesty as an observer survives...
Prejudice certainly is widespread. Apart from a few extremist groups such as the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging, which bears more than a faint resemblance to the Nazis, ideological racism is rare. Whites do not openly make bigoted remarks. The literature of the ruling Nationalist Party contains no derogatory references to Blacks. But little things slip out. An English-speaking cab driver, who assured his passenger that he supported the reform-minded Progressive Federal Party, finished a lengthy discourse on poor Afrikaners (of predominantly Dutch stock, Afrikaners make up 65 per cent of the white population) by saying, "Why, some of these...
...Kennedy School yesterday, Atwood traced her development as a Canadian nationalist and a feminist. "For a long time, 'Canadian writer' was an oxymoron," she said...