Word: revolted
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...outright retreat from an unpopular step toward greater labor flexibility and holding a tough line. "The government is ready for dialogue," President Jacques Chirac said on Friday, "and I hope this will start as quickly as possible." And not a moment too soon. France is in another bout of revolt against its government, conducted with the kind of theatrical brio that seems more the antithesis of dialogue than its prelude. Union leaders are threatening a general strike later this week. Many of France's universities have been in an uproar for a month. The Sorbonne, the iconic epicenter...
...politically astute leadership than the country has now. André Glucksmann, one of the new philosophers who emerged in 1968, thinks that the great majority of French voters - the ones who didn't march last weekend - know that things have to change. "Every generation we have a war, a revolt or a revolution," he says. "That's how we recycle our élite." Rising to the top of preliminary polls for the presidency are politicians who propose new ways of doing business: Sarkozy, who talks of a "rupture from the policies of the last 30 years," and Socialist...
...lived in squalor, and militias occasionally shot striking workers in labor disputes - it happened as late as 1914, in Ludlow, Colorado. Before the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia had one of the fastest rates of economic growth in Europe, even as peasants starved and an urban proletariat grew up ready to revolt. It's easy to see how, on a three-day trip, India might feel like a nation magically transformed. Bookstores have shelves dedicated to India's new economic might, newspapers review the latest Porsche, and television advertisements feature Indian astronauts drinking sodas on the moon. But backbreaking poverty remains...
...question is whether Beijing can assuage rural discontent before it hardens into a wider, more flammable agrarian revolt. The central government has experimented with programs that channel money more directly to the people meant to receive it--one project involves wiring teachers' salaries to post-office accounts instead of leaving pay at the discretion of local officials. But the authorities' main tactic for stopping the spread of rural protests remains preventing word about them from getting out. Panlong residents say that since the Jan. 14 protest, their uncensored satellite feed from Hong Kong has been cut, so they have little...
...full congressional break with Bush on the ports deal is for the White House to offer Congress a chance to review and oversee the sale. But that is a step the Administration has continued to rule out. And so the President's party is poised for an unprecedented revolt...