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Word: resentment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resent such choices being imposed on me, and ultimately used and manipulated toward the formation of education policy which cannot be sound," Lang said yesterday...

Author: By Robert G. Giebisch, | Title: Yale Professor Criticizes Survey of University Faculties | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...somewhat broader than that of negotiator, however. Some of his associates believe he feels a professional kinship with the modest but highly effective and creative George C. Marshall, Harry Truman's postwar Secretary. Unlike Brzezinski, Vance is both so self-effacing and self-confident that he does not resent or fear bureaucratic competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vance: Man on the Move | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...increase was needed to rescue the Social Security system, which was rapidly going bankrupt. But the boost outraged many Americans, especially those who pay the maximum levy for Social Security ($1,071 this year) and resent the fact that they are paying an increasingly large share of the nation's taxes. According to the Treasury Department, the most affluent households-those with annual earnings of $17,000 or more-received half of the nation's personal income in 1976 but paid 70% of all federal, state and local taxes, up from 68% in 1970. Next year the maximum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hasty Retreat | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...decline in popularity of the pot-boiler technological science fiction that flourished in the '30s, as exemplified by the novels of E.E. "Doc" Smith, from whose "Lensman" books the convention takes its name. Many SF fans seem to look back fondly to this era of "space opera," and resent its being dismissed as "that old Buck Rogers stuff." At the same time, this genre has been revived, updated a bit and popularized by the movie "Star Wars...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Close Encounters In Beantown | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

...wanted the government to offer immigrants financial help to leave the country. Unquestionably Mrs. Thatcher had seized an issue of particular appeal to traditionally Labor blue-collar workers, who see the immigrants as a threat to their jobs, and to a large segment of the British public who resent the intrusion of a different culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Mrs. Thatcher's Bold Gamble | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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