Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film sets Ford, as a legal killer, or "blade runner," against the homicidal "replicates," genetically designed slaves. The replicates, laborers for colony planets, are designed with four-year life spans. Not surprisingly, some of these unfortunates resent their mortality and return to earth to meet their makers, hoping to steal the genetic secrets of their existence. The tend to kill anyone who gets in their way, which is why Ford gets called...
That kind of morality does not sit well with the old-line machine politicians in the P.R.I., who also resent the fact that De la Madrid is a technocrat who has always stood above the rough and tumble of local politics. There were rumblings of unrest within the party when De la Madrid's nomination was announced, particularly since the P.R.I.'s then president, Javier Garcia Paniagua, was not informed of the choice beforehand. Nonetheless the tug of party loyalty, along with some selective purges, has apparently got the machine pols into line, although major power struggles...
...Italian I resent your review of Mussolini [June 7]. The cowed and incapacitated Italian army, navy and air force that you refer to made it possible for the U.S. Army to land practically undisturbed in Southern Italy. The minimal resistance of our troops actually helped the Americans chase the Nazis and what was left of the Fascists out of the country. The Italians by then supported neither group. We had had enough of the war. Fascism is but two decades in Italy's 3,000-year history. It is too early to judge that period without bias...
Alumni--those welcomed to "the company of educated men and women" in years past--should send Harvard that message at every turn. They should tell the University that they are uncomfortable giving money to an institution whose investment policies are explicitly amoral. They should remind officials that they resent it when Harvard tries to cancel academic projects because of inflexible funding schemes and institutional infighting. They should show Harvard they feel the College's diversity is worth paying a high price for, that it is a critical enough value not to be squandered because of tight finances...
...candidates has disadvantages. Wilson, 48, a bland moderate with a good eleven-year record as mayor, does not inspire the voters. Well liked in the Bay Area, McCloskey, 54, may be too liberal for Southern California, where conservatives remember his strong stance against the Viet Nam War and Jews resent his call for U.S. recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization. As for Goldwater, Wilson has attacked his mediocre attendance record in Congress (he was present for only 18% of the votes this year) and asked whether he is intelligent enough to handle the almost certain winner of the Democratic primary...