Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daughter of a former New Mexico Governor and married to a law school classmate, Bobb, 35, has no current plans to raise a family. She acknowledges that "I might resent a child for taking me away from what I want to do most." And what she does well. "She's the finest female personal injury lawyer I've ever seen," says Dan Webb, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago. Bobb would be only partly pleased to hear that. "I want to get to the point," she says, "where people say you're one of the best trial lawyers...
Disregard of Privacy. Jones does not find much concern about the privacy of public figures. Readers do resent disregard for the "feelings of individuals like themselves who for no fault of their own are thrust into the news. They resent photos that show grief-stricken families or that hold someone up to ridicule...
...certainly, she says. There would be no problem at all. But the production of Othello, in which she played Desdemona before she left, still has not been shown on Polish television. Do the authorities resent what she insists is not a defection...
Zeldin's loose sociological approach reveals itself in a strong chapter on class relations. Rather than particularize feelings along class lines, he concerns him-self with "how people perceive social relationships," reducing French society to three groups--those who like to lead others, those who hate or resent their boss, and those who opt out of the hierarchical system. The Duc de Brissac's "aristocratic" qualities are as easily found in M. Perrin, a worker in the Rossignol Ski Factory in Voiron, or in M. Cazeau, an engineer from Toulouse...
...Face it," says Wolfman, "waiters in nice restaurants are serving people they know are deducting the bills racked up in those places. Lower-and middle-income people are not dumb just because they don't have loopholes. They know a significant distinction when they see one, and they resent the well-heeled using tax-free expense accounts and legal shelters to get out of paying their fair share...