Word: resentments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unrest among ordinary Chinese may prove harder for Hua to deal with. Mass dissatisfaction, held in check under Mao, was unleashed following his death. Workers are unhappy over low wages, effectively frozen since 1971. There is widespread resentment about intrusive authority, misuse of power by local officials and party demands for constant indoctrination sessions. Existing poverty has been exacerbated by the rising expectations that are encouraged by the Chinese leaders, who talk constantly about the splendid present and the glowing future. Young Chinese resent the practice of being sent from the cities to the countryside to learn the virtues...
Communist cooperation in the parliamentary process is a disturbing new anomaly for Western European democracies, and few Italians are pleased by the development. Many Communist rank and filers resent what amounts to their party's support on key votes for the Christian Democrats. Andreotti's critics, meanwhile, charge that by accepting Communist "non-opposition," the Premier is providing the Communists with an opportunity to enter the government eventually. Andreotti has qualms about accepting support from the left under these circumstances, but, he says, "in order to come out of our economic crisis, it would be foolish...
...strongly resent Robert Hughes' snide remarks concerning the Metropolitan Museum's retrospective show of Andrew Wyeth...
...into no heckling in ethnic neighborhoods. In Yonkers, N.Y., he was cheered by crowds waving SLOVAK AMERICANS FOR FORD signs. In Union, N.J., he was greeted with signs proclaiming JA CIE KOCHAM (Polish for "I love you"). But these were largely Republican areas. Ethnics who continue to resent his statement may be less visible, though just as capable of going to the polling booth. As Masewski concedes, "There will be certain segments who will continue to blame him. There are some who don't believe in forgiving...
...years. In 1974 the unions scored an even greater coup; they persuaded Congress to pass a bill that would require 30% of all U.S. petroleum imports to be carried in U.S. tankers by 1977. The bill was an especially important piece of revenge for the unions: they deeply resent the big U.S. oil companies for having placed their supertankers under foreign registry and hired non-U.S. crewmen...