Word: revolt
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...dispute was no longer just about policies; it was also about Arafat. The rebels were led by Abu Mousa, a former commander in the Bekaa Valley, who was upset over the promotion of two comrades. Syria's Assad, eager to seize control of the Palestinian movement, fanned the revolt by giving Abu Mousa's troops financial aid and a safe haven in eastern Lebanon. "The Syrians want Arafat's head," recently explained Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s chief political strategist. "They want to remove the symbol of the revolution because their real aim is to have...
Californians in 1978 passed Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by 51%, and cries of "tax revolt" were soon heard across the U.S. But this year voters were not in the mood for new tax-cut initiatives. In Michigan, they soundly defeated Proposal C, which was designed to roll back state and local property taxes to 1981 levels and force the state legislature to muster a four-fifths majority for income tax increases. It would also have required voter approval for all new levies. Opposing the proposition was an unusual coalition of critics, including Democratic Governor James Blanchard, the state...
...resembling those of Kurt Weill's, the words are as bitterly ironic as Brecht's. Throughout Marat/Sade, the singers repeat the refrain: "Marat we're poor/And the poor stay poor,/Give us a rise and we don't care how,/Give us a revolution...now!" The link between mass revolt and sexual lust is the theme of another rollicking song: "And what is the point of a revolution/But general copulation?" On the word "copulation", the singers perform a neatly-choreographed little wind-up dance...
Jarvis' proposal is one of more than 200 initiatives and referendums that voters in 42 states will be considering on Nov. 6. This year's economic recovery has led to some sweeping antitax initiatives recalling the tax revolt that peaked with Proposition 13. California, Michigan and Nevada, for example, have proposals on the ballot that would not only limit property taxes but also restrict state and local governments from using fees or other sources to raise revenue without voter approval...
With these simple facts in mind, the question of divestment becomes moot. Not because divestment will or will not work, but because it will not occur until it is no longer profitable to conduct business in South Africa. That will happen when Black workers in South Africa rise in revolt and crush the apartheid state...