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Israeli political leaders are beginning to learn a different lesson, best expressed by Minister of Economics Gad Yaacobi, a Labor Party member: "The true sources of the recent events are the pent-up fury and hatred of 20 years of occupation, the swelling frustration over diplomatic stagnation, and the sense of impotence and hopelessness stemming from this." Added Ezer Weizman, a former Defense Minister and Likud bloc member who recently defected to Labor: "If we do not advance now toward a political solution the situation will only deteriorate rapidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East In the Eye Of a Revolt | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...ever since Li shut it down for four days during the global financial crash last October. At a stormy news ! conference held when trading resumed, the contentious Li argued that he had given investors a chance to calm down. But his action had the opposite effect: it created a pent-up pressure to sell. After the exchange reopened, the Hang Seng stock index plunged by 33% in a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billionaire on The Griddle | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Acting in the revue serves as an outlet for pent-up emotions, says Kara M. Walsh, who spent two years with the Harvard Square cast. "I used to live in a very small town, and I really hated it because you couldn't be what you wanted to be without people saying something," she says. "You went to Rocky, and the people there didn't say anything...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Some Terrible Thrills | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

...more work. Strikers shut down the country's showcase automobile industry as well as textile factories and chemical plants. Taxi drivers and bus operators in Seoul and Kwangju declined to accept passengers. In all, some 200,000 workers were idled by job actions. A striker in Pusan expressed the pent-up frustrations of many: "It is our turn to receive humane treatment. We have the right to a decent living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Out on the Street | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...conviction for the rape of a pregnant woman. When Ramseur finally refused to answer any more questions, Crane sentenced him to six months in jail for contempt. Crane ordered all of Ramseur's testimony stricken, but his appearance undoubtedly had its effect on the jury. "He had so much pent-up rage," Juror Serpe told the New York Daily News. "He reminded me of a caged animal . . . I had a nightmare about him . . . I woke up feeling drained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Guilty | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

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