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...first time, we are peeking into the laboratories of researchers," Vellucci said, "and they resent it. They resent that we dared to come into their laboratories and spy on them...
...issue of quotas. Then too there are the white lies told daily in the universities by fainthearted, if well-meaning, professors writing false recommendations for unprepared black students for jobs in which they are bound to fail; the professors then are lost in dismay when the students fail and resent the lie. All these things and more, including white racism, whose unredeemed resilience may be read in the revival of the Klan, or scrawled above the nation's urinals, where it belongs...
...invest rather than to simply consume more and increase inflation. Texas Democrat J.J. Pickle scoffed at this approach as "jelly bean talk." New York Democrat Thomas Downey acidly told Treasury Secretary Donald Regan: "I do believe a lot of your assumptions are hallucinogenic." Replied a shaken Regan: "I resent that. To call the Treasury Secretary of America . . ." Downey interrupted: "You cannot cite one statistic, one report, one shred of evidence...
...lending credence to the notion that we're only here because of 'diversity,' and I resent that," Davis said...
...Withdrawal from the European Community. Britain's membership in the Community, say the leftists, has pushed up prices, cost thousands of British jobs and reduced the sovereign rights of Parliament. The militants resent the fact that Britain pays out large subsidies to support the economies of other Community countries. Some fear a Community grab to control Britain's energy policy and North Sea oil. The nation, they say, should look elsewhere for more profitable and sympathetic trading partners, including Communist bloc and Third World countries. According to a recent poll, 58% of the British public now agree that...