Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gives us the best telephone service in the world. It employs 1 million people, has a pension fund never touched by scandal, is well managed and pays regular dividends to 3 million stockholders. As a taxpayer, I protest the $15 million spent pursuing this case. As a stockholder, I resent the $360 million AT&T expended defending itself. As a consumer, I will unquestionably be hurt...
...discover that many of the freshmen they helped elect are now less anxious to do battle for conservative social causes than they were when they were on the campaign trail. Says Senator James Abdnor of South Dakota, who defeated Democrat George McGovern partly by stressing social issues: "I resent that the New Right says they elected me. I'm not part of their crusade." His attitude on dealing with the proposals: "Let's get them over with...
...said. One of his most celebrated bits of clowning was his mock-solemn response to a Republican charge that he had accidentally left his Scotch terrier Fala behind on a trip to Alaska and then sent a destroyer to retrieve it. "Of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them," Roosevelt told a guffawing campaign audience. "You know, Fala is Scotch and . . . his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since...
...restrictions State Department security agents resent most is a rule against carrying firearms on fraud investigations. "When you whip out that badge, it looks like any other badge," gripes an agent. "There's nothing on it that says we're not carrying guns and we're harmless. You really don't know who you're going to find. It could be John Dillinger." The agents regard the restriction as sure evidence of the State Department's snobbish disdain for cops. When the question of allowing the agents to be armed came...
...Soviet soft-sell and turned off by the militant talk of the U.S. An official at the Dutch Foreign Ministry, referring to what he calls the "successor generation," notes that its members "did not experience war in any form. They take peace as the natural order of things. They resent any sacrifice to maintain peace. They are ignorant of the situation in Communist countries. They don't go there and they don't want to know. They believe that all superpowers are alike." Says Felipe Gonzalez, the leader of Spain's Socialists: "The youth of Europe did not live through...