Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Griggs also recalls Kenyatta giving speeches in three languages: "He would lead off in deep, booming English for the whites, talking of how Kenyans should not resent foreigners but understand that they were in Kenya to help blacks develop...
...Administration has given up trying to beat Steiger, and is instead seeking to keep shallow any cut in capital-gains taxes. The hottest prospect is a reduction in the maximum rate to 35%. Meanwhile, the whole episode has shown politicians once again how deeply Americans have come to resent taxes. Says Richard Rahn, executive director of the American Council for Capital Formation, a lobbying group for lowering capital-gains rates: "Support for Steiger is coming not from the fat cats but from middle-income people yelling 'I want a chance to make it!' The fat cat can protect his income...
...problem a communication gap is "simplistic." He believes that reclassification is a matter of integrity for the workers. He explained at the time of the strike that maintenance workers such as Harvards B&G employees undergo years of careful training and apprenticeship to learn their particular craft, and resent having to perform jobs they feel they are unsuited for. "The main issue was reclassification, an issue that had to come to a head--and we weren't getting anywhere," Costello said...
After 14 months in office and some brickbats from Western farmers who resent his role in the cancellation of several water projects, Andrus is fully aware of his responsibilities. He recognizes that some of the nation's public lands must be mined, logged, grazed or otherwise used to meet the needs of the U.S. economy...
...home and fall into the cellar? Even at their worst, such things are pitched slightly comic and askew. Hannah's voice becomes distinctive as the stories proceed, a rolling mixture of roadhouse macho and ginmill sentimentality, marvelously suited for both shenanigans and self-parody Most young souther writers resent being compared to such past giants as Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. In embracing the gothic mode. Hannah, 35, has planted himself firmly on their turf. On the evidence of Airships, their shadows are not stunting his growth. - Paul Gray