Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roaring into Washington promising not just to remake welfare but to pull down the whole edifice of federal poverty programs. They say that in doing so, they are merely carrying out the mandate of the voters who sent them to Congress. To the extent that there is clear voter sentiment for change, they have a point. But in their unbridled willingness to go after immigrants and the poor, the new House firebrands may be getting out ahead of the public mood...
...economic footing is plainly of a mind to hunker down. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 61% of those surveyed agreed with the statement that "the way things are today, people have to worry more about themselves and their families and less about helping others." That's a sentiment that speaks not so much of the Christmas season as of the dead of winter, marked by something dark, bristling and a little chilly. Given enough encouragement, a good many Americans might be persuaded to vent their anxieties upon the classes just beneath them...
That position doesn't present much political risk for Shaw, who represents a mostly white, non-Hispanic district that includes Miami Beach. Other Republicans are less comfortable with the possibility that their party might become so identified with the anti-immigration sentiment that it turns off the Hispanic voters the party hopes to attract. Though California's Republican House delegation is likely to push for a national Proposition 187, Gingrich himself is opposed...
...something a little frustratingly soft -- in the text -- at her center. As played by David Strathairn, Kerner is more convincing as a scientist than as a squelched lover; there's something slightly too predictable -- too projectable, as Kerner the mathematician might say -- about his twitchings and jerkings when sentiment gets the better...
Nonetheless, the tensions are real and not to be dismissed as mere mouthings by Yeltsin to appeal to nationalist sentiment at home. The very fact that Washington bashing is increasingly popular will make it tempting for Yeltsin to do more and more of it -- especially since his prospects of being re- elected in 1996 currently seem as shaky as Clinton's. In one recent poll, Russians were asked whether they would rather live in the "state system" headed by Yeltsin or in the one ruled by the late Leonid Brezhnev, whose leadership of the Soviet Union was long derided...