Word: resentment
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...speech, his top aides were working on little besides the Mexican loan deal. Rubin, Panetta and Vice President Al Gore faced a hostile group of House Democrats Wednesday morning and realized that they had what one called ``a potential tragedy'' on their hands. Fearful that voters back home would resent the public underwriting of private loans to Mexico, lawmakers refused to make what Gore called ``a difficult vote but an easy decision.'' Hearing Gore's insistence that the Treasury might actually make money from the deal, a lawmaker shocked the White House group with his bluntness. ``Al,'' he said, ``look...
...Successful people particularly resent people just taking their money," Monrad says...
...never really liked musicals. It might be more accurate to say that I resent them. Audiences are expected to like musicals the way children are expected to like puppets...
...totally resent this letter and those who put it together," Martin said. He also condemned those who believe "that anybody who criticizes a Jew is ipso facto anti-Semitic...
...dutifully carrying out Clinton's policy. Others carp at her penchant for television -- the President has personally ordered her to appear as often as possible -- suggesting it reflects a superficial approach to foreign-policy issues. ("Ambassador Halfbright" is whispered by several adversaries in U.N. corridors.) Hypersensitive U.N. diplomats also resent her absence from the U.N. party circuit, but she pleads too little time "to go schmoozing around the halls." "The people I work with appreciate the fact that I'm plugged into Washington," she says. "I'm in the inner circle. I'm involved in everything...