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...hard lesson that U.S. investors in Europe and Latin America learned earlier is now being thrust upon the Japanese moving into Hawaii: local residents often resent and fear a sudden pronounced rise in takeovers by foreigners. Some Hawaiians are deeply concerned, even though their own state government invited the splurge by spending $1,000,000 at Japan's Expo '70 in Osaka to promote investment in the islands...
...this will require legislation, some of it politically unpopular; most Americans will resent being pushed into mass transit or having to pay more for housing because of revised building codes. Still, several states are preparing legislation to break what Massachusetts Governor Francis Sargent calls "the endless cycle of energy addiction...
...strength, of course, is the passionate loyalty of many of its members. Some migrants, however, have complained about the union's inefficient management. Hiring halls, for instance, have sometimes broken up family work teams. The Teamsters do have some support among field hands, largely from Filipinos who resent the Chicano-dominated U.F.W. Chavez believes that a heavy majority of workers would choose the U.F.W. in a free vote, but he has no way of forcing...
...March 29, former Attorney General John Mitchell said: "I deeply resent the slanderous and false statements about me concerning the Watergate matter reported as being based on hearsay and leaked out. I have previously denied any prior knowledge of or involvement in the Watergate affair and again reaffirm such denials...
...fluid, sometimes flamboyant ministry. John Crillo, a San Diego Jesuit, says a free-form English Mass in homemade vestments of peacock greens, blues and yellows; some older colleagues in the order still stick doggedly to the superseded Latin Mass. Other older Jesuits, like Marquette University Historian Paul Prucha, resent the "dilettantism" of the young: "They think they're taking theology by taking courses in theology of the theater or theology of ecology." Together with a growing cadre of radicalized older Jesuits, many younger ones sharply criticize the order's acquisition of property at the expense of the freedom of poverty?...