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There are, however, a few surprising sources of anti-Simon sentiment: some lower-level aides at the White House and in the Office of Management and Budget resent Simon's sudden prominence and independent ways (he recently said that OMB Director Roy Ash should keep his "cotton-picking hands off energy policy). Some of them have taken to making snide wisecracks about Simon: "When the President appointed an energy czar, he didn't know he was getting Ivan the Terrible...
...people resent the CDC'S probing and refuse to cooperate with investigators. A surgeon suspected of being the source of an outbreak of streptococcal infections dosed himself with antibiotics before allowing officers to examine him. But once they understand the dangers of allowing an infection to spread, most people are more than willing to help the disease detectives. CDC officers investigating a California VD epidemic had a great deal of trouble locating a prostitute who had infected a truck driver with syphilis during an encounter when he was on the road. When they finally tracked her down...
...Armored Force General Shlomo Lahat and outspoken Housewife Shulamit Aloni. Lahat campaigned for mayor of Tel Aviv as though he were waging a military campaign. "Give me a broom and I will sweep this city clean" was his slogan. In a country where sizable numbers of nonpracticing Jews apparently resent the religious laws that apply to everybody, Aloni appeared to have gained at least two seats in the Knesset for her small civil rights party, whose platform called for civil marriage and divorce in Israel. Jerusalem's widely known Mayor Teddy Kollek was also reelected, but a boycott...
Eventually, as the evolving natural paternalism of colonialism attacked slavery, tribal warfare, illiteracy, and some grosser forms of oppression, a westernized class of Africans arose. In this segment of westernized Africans--which generally came to resent both exploitation and paternalism--the roots of nationalism in Africa began to arise in the 20th century...
...while U.S. corporations invest more money to bolster apartheid in South Africa than is invested in all other African countries south of the Sahara combined, the investment-hungry, market-poor black countries can only resent the pattern; they are hardly in a position to reverse it or entice a higher level of investment for themselves...