Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is a nation founded on a tax revolt. No one wants a meddlesome Big Brother tax system that can find your odd sock for you, but it ought to be as capable as American Express or Citicorp. Chiseled above the entrance of the IRS building in Washington is an Oliver Wendell Holmes axiom: "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society." Americans also pay for the agency that collects those taxes, and they have a right to expect not perfection but efficiency...
...vernaculars. Though by the end of the '50s, laden with celebrity, he had become the man for younger artists to beat, it is impossible to imagine Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and some of the younger Pop artists developing their visions except in response to his, or to disentangle their revolt against his gestural, richly inflected touch from their homage...
...revolt in Vlora began six weeks ago, in defiance of swarms of riot police and agents of SHIK, the state security service, who were trying to stamp out demonstrations. Vlora, a town of 70,000, had recently been prosperous, at least in Albanian terms, largely because some of its residents are noted for their skill at smuggling. Since they had money to lose, they lost more than most Albanians in the collapsing pyramid funds. They have had it with Berisha. "He is a thief who stole our money," says Idris Nimet, a carpenter turned rebel. "Berisha will never...
...cases of the stuff went down, according to Impact, an industry trade journal. "With the economy being fairly buoyant, people are in a position to indulge themselves more," says Jamie Prusak, vice president of Schieffelin & Somerset, a liquor distributor. The increase also reflects--note all those lighted cigars--a revolt against the saintly life, known as the "pleasure revenge...
...case of the Amistad revolt made it all the way to the Supreme Court before the slaves were allowed to return home...