Word: resentational
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...mostly white suburbs. Freshman Congressman Robert Ehrlich Jr., who represents the white, working-class suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, has even introduced legislation to cut off money for voucher programs ordered by a federal judge in his district. "People who have worked their entire lives to buy a home resent government handouts," he says, adding that vouchers "denigrate" property values...
...hunters. "It doesn't appear that the FBI is going to catch us anytime soon," the letter said. He wrote to an earlier victim, Yale professor David Gelernter, saying, "If you had any brains, you would have realized that there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world, and you wouldn't have been dumb enough to open an unexpected package from an unknown source." Soon he was writing to the San Francisco Chronicle, threatening to blow up an airplane out of Los Angeles, which caused security...
YOUR COVERAGE OF THE TRAGEDY AT Dunblane was a sensitive and moving tribute to the grieving parents and friends of the dead. The genuine suffering of the victims makes me resent all the more the media's focusing so much attention on these murdered white, middle-class children while all but ignoring the equally unthinkable deaths of other youngsters: the street children of Rio de Janeiro, periodically murdered by authorities and vigilantes when their numbers grow too large; the child sex workers of Thailand and Indonesia, who die slow and painful deaths when they are infected with aids or addicted...
...podium, though, Dole seems to resent having to stand up in front of everyone and pontificate, as if he, a man of some substance, had been reduced by forces beyond his control to acting like some sort of debate-team show-off. He says he's a doer rather than a talker...
...keep him strapped down. "The Dole folks are really trying to crank up the Governors to freeze out Lamar," says a veteran G.O.P. campaign strategist. That may not be too difficult: privately, some Governors complain Alexander is a bit too slick for his own good, and they resent his string of sweetheart deals that tend to come a Governor's way but that many of them have nonetheless passed...