Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advisers, old and new, no leisure in which to think out the details of economic strategy. Dismal crop forecasts last week made plain that food-price inflation is gathering speed again. A union plan to shut down the nation's coal mines this week underlined boiling labor unrest. The stock market, reflecting investor skepticism that anything much would change, plunged to new lows. The success or failure of Ford's presidency will be judged largely by whether in the months ahead he can produce a different kind of economic news...
There were no signs of political unrest or of special police forces being moved into readiness round the city...
...years when urban ghettos were exploding and the nation's campuses were shaken by student demonstrations, government officials and members of the legal profession came to see storefront lawyers as contributors to social unrest. In 1966 the president of the Tennessee Bar Association was widely applauded at a conference of state bar leaders when he charged that the Legal Service Program "relates to the fomenting of social unrest in this country. They propose to go out and tell people how to carry out rent and consumer strikes and demonstrate against lending institutions. I do not think this is consistent with...
Hesse does not agree with critics who accuse the back-up centers of fomenting social unrest. "All our litigation is achieving is due process of law. It's something so primitive I'm embarrassed to talk about it in a civilized society." For instance, he says, an auto dealer can repossess a car on which he claims there is a default of payments without even notifying the owner. "All we're asking is that the consumer be given a chance to make his case," he explains...
Provoked largely by the fear of even more inflation to come, labor unrest is spreading. There have already been strikes and demands for wage increases by airline employees, policemen and lumbermill workers. Other chronic troubles are the country's economic dependence on imports (50% of its manufactured goods) and the smoldering but deeply felt antagonisms between French-and English-speaking Canadians and between Canada's regions, East and West...