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...regarded as one of the House of Representatives' wisest heads. If the job goes to either man instead of an upstart newcomer like Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford or Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, Clinton will be betting that even in a "weird" political year, more voters value Washington experience than resent...
Another source of problems have been with bike riders. Nearly every rollerblader has some story to tell about antagonistic bicyclists. Many skaters say that the cyclists resent them for increasing their numbers so greatly and so quickly...
...Slovak leader's waffling reflects his electorate's ambiguous feelings. While many Slovaks resent the power of Prague and in particular Klaus' hard- nosed market policies, most did not want an outright split. The prospect of a separate Slovakian budget for 1993 could give form to those doubts: only 13% of last year's foreign investment to Czechoslovakia went to Slovakia, where unemployment has burgeoned to almost...
After years of apparently harmonious marriage, however, rifts began appearing. As the accolades and awards poured in for Stephen, Jane -- competent and intelligent herself -- began to resent living in his shadow. Deeply religious, she was also offended by his apparent atheism. Particularly galling to her was his concept, enunciated first before the Pope at a scientific meeting at the Vatican, that the universe might be completely self- contained, having no boundary or edge, no beginning or end. If that were true, he asked provocatively, "What place, then, for a creator?" Still, friends were shocked in 1990 when Hawking abruptly ended...
...Development Program. Environmentalists are suspicious of the GEF because the World Bank, the lending institution through which most international aid has been funneled in the past, has a history of investing primarily in large, ecologically damaging capital projects such as jungle highways and hydroelectric dams. Developing countries resent the GEF because it is effectively controlled by the World Bank, which in turn is dominated by the industrialized countries. They also complain that it targets problems that . the developed world cares about, such as global warming and ozone depletion, rather than issues important to the developing world, including fresh-water supplies...