Word: rebellions
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...would look now, all you would see is an occupying power, Israeli armed men putting down rebellion," he said...
...have matters improved since Yeltsin returned to Moscow three weeks ago. The situation that Rutskoi tried to phone him about, a movement to secede from the Russian Federation by the Chechen Ingush autonomous republic in the Caucasus, has blossomed into outright rebellion, and the secessionists last week defied a plea to lay down their arms. A much larger ethnic group in southern Russia, the Tatars, declared their region to be independent last week, and even some ethnic Russians in Siberia and the Far East are talking about setting up a breakaway republic...
...such a safe and cliched form of rebellion for the town to fall for. Yes, he rides his cycle without a helmet, but he is just a nice, handsome, kind, brave white boy who doesn't even use profanity in his raps. He is Elvis in gang clothes and sunglasses, but without the talent. The Black sidekicks, on the other hand, literally sit in a garage for three-quarters of the movie, away from the white town, hidden away from the impressionable and seducable white kids...
...most notable rebellion occurred in Boston, where several restaurants threatened to drop American Express unless it would renegotiate its rates. American Express refused, but quietly offered a standing discount for merchants who submit their receipts electronically. The company fears that if it gives in to one group, that could start a stampede by others demanding rate discounts. Amex's biggest fear is that airlines and hotels, which account for 45% of its merchant-fee income, will ask for renegotiated deals...
Nonetheless, the traditional structure of public education, where students are assigned to schools by fiat, is under a sustained assault. The Bush plan perhaps should be regarded as a clever White House effort to put its imprimatur on a popular rebellion that was already reshaping educational policy from the grass roots up. Local school bureaucracies are already under siege from a variety of forces -- innovative Governors, activist courts, maverick educators and aroused parents...