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...brake to refugee traffic. An East German official predicts that once free travel wipes out border barriers, about 1.5 million of the country's 16.6 million citizens might head West. Without the Wall, West Berlin will bear the brunt of that great rush. But West Berlin's workers already resent the city's shortages of jobs and housing and the heavy concentration of alien guest workers from Turkey and ethnic Germans from the East bloc. Ironically, unless the burden of a new influx is properly shared, the people on the Western side might not be all that happy...
Third, you attack motives, suggesting financial greed, slyness, and deception. As the sole author of Proposition 1-2-3, I resent that inappropriate attack. I am a real-estate broker, but not a landlord. I don't own or manage one rent-controlled apartment; and no broker is needed for a landlord to sell to his own tenant...
Such advice has often placed Sachs in a cross fire between U.S. bankers, who oppose large-scale debt forgiveness, and populist foreign critics, who resent his calls for fiscal austerity. Walter Wriston, the former chairman of Citicorp, whose Citibank unit has more than $8 billion in outstanding Latin American loans, calls Sachs "a paid flack for the countries of Latin America." Wriston argues that widespread loan write-offs would prevent Latin countries from receiving new credit. At the same time, Julio Bravo, finance secretary of the Bolivian Worker's Central Union, charges that as a result of Sachs' advice, "salaries...
FINALLY, there are those who suggest psychiatrists raise their children funny. I, my brother Freud and sister Jung truly resent this implication. While we may be more able to recognize a blatant case of penis envy faster than the next guy, I don't believe having a psychiatrist father has significantly altered our so-very-important childhoods...
Still, Braden has his detractors. While quick to praise able coaches, he is disliked, and as he admits, "even hated" by many others. They resent his criticism, his intrusion into what they think is their turf, and his systematic discrediting of some of their most cherished teaching methods...