Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their efforts to break the other party's stranglehold on the House by forcing popular Democrats to quit long before the voters would force them to retire. But any broad effort to restrict the tenure of lawmakers could have an unintended negative effect: it might deflect public attention -- and rage -- away from what the people's representatives are actually doing in Congress to a debate over whether they should be thrown out on a set schedule regardless of their performance...
...Columbus Day crack-up -- and the week of budget blustering that followed -- can serve as a lasting metaphor for national decline. Picture a government so broke and divided that patriotic tourists in Washington were caught between frustration (closed monuments) and farce (Congress in session). The public reaction was rage, an indiscriminate mad-as-hell roar. The politicians responded at first in typical fashion: posturing and finger pointing in an effort to apportion partisan blame...
Whether this initial rush of rage fully reflected public opinion was unclear. A TIME/CNN poll taken by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman after Bush's televised speech showed that 77% of Americans thought the deficit a "very serious" problem. When asked in general terms about the austerity program, 54% said they opposed it, compared with 36% in favor. But when asked if passing the package was more important than their objections to some of its parts, respondents favored enactment by a clear majority...
Another key factor animating the students' rage is a sense of betrayal. There is a widespread belief that Singh, who enjoyed a large following among students because he stressed honest, "value-based politics," compromised those principles by setting aside the jobs for lower castes. Though Singh does have a history of commitment to social reform, it is also undeniable that he needed a stronger mandate to prop up his minority government. The affirmative- action decision not only gave Singh fresh support from a huge part of the electorate; it also undermined several of his political enemies who rely...
...suffer the severest problems are those who are physically or sexually abused. Many lose all self-esteem and trust. Michele, 15, who is a manic-depressive and an alcoholic, is the child of an alcoholic father who left when she was two and a mother who took out her rage by beating Michele's younger sister. When Michele was 12, her mother remarried. Michele's new stepbrother promptly began molesting her. "So I molested my younger brother," confesses Michele. "I also hit him a lot. He was four. I was lost; I didn't know how to deal with things...