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...guess they thought it would be nice to get some amateurs on stage for their anniversary, although I kind of resent being placed in that category," Flaherty said...
...make the students and the faculty somewhat uncomfortable." He may have been too successful. Although the former president of the Toro manufacturing company has more than doubled the college's endowment, his handling of antiapartheid protests and a conservative student newspaper drew sharp criticism. Moreover, many faculty members resent his tough management style and lack of academic experience. In October, McLaughlin disclosed he would step down...
...political power now rests in the urban areas, precisely where the reforms have generated less enthusiasm. To older workers in state industries, the demand for greater efficiency, with the threat of bankruptcy as the goad, presages more work with less job-security. Government bureaucrats and factory party committees resent and dislike the price rises which the partial freeing of the market has already meant...
Duarte is still viewed with suspicion by some within the military. Besides those officers upset by his peace initiatives, a handful of others resent his successful effort to reduce the number of assassinations carried out by right- wing death squads, some of which are part of the military's intelligence service. Duarte has reason to mistrust the military. Several officers have been implicated in kidnapings of wealthy Salvadorans, crimes that were blamed on the guerrillas. One is under house arrest, but another, Lieut. Colonel Roberto Mauricio Staben, still holds an important field command...
Many foreign companies--especially American ones--resent the presence of the Japanese because of the closed nature of the Japanese domestic market. While the Japanese have no tariffs or formal trade barriers, their market is "unusually difficult to enter," Vogel said...