Word: unrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when wage-price restraint must be enforced. But Galbraith-style permanent controls tend in the long run to suffocate economic life by distorting market forces, discouraging business investment and initiative, and creating shortages. They also breed worker resentment over lost wage boosts that translates into more social and political unrest than a popularly elected government can afford. On the one hand, Galbraith indicts government for unfailing economic mismanagement; on the other hand, he trusts government to save the day with wage-price controls. He thus seems to fall into an inconsistency he might relish in an opponent...
...What are the common elements of teacher unrest this fall...
Changing Moods. Critics charged that Fanfani still approaches politics in terms of cold war antiCommunism. By ignoring vast social changes in Italy as well as voter unrest over government corruption, recession and unemployment and the decaying quality of life, he had, they believed, led the party into a series of humiliating defeats, culminating in the regional elections...
...their view, Ford is determined to crush Reagan by rounding up delegates early and dealing roughly with Reagan supporters. Told by the California group that some Reagan aides had been "insulted" by their lack of patronage influence with the Ford Administration, the President sounded unworried about such unrest among Reagan aides. Calmly puffing on his pipe, he observed that he had been a conservative Republican long before Reagan became one. Reagan was still playing second-banana roles in grade-B movies when Ford began pushing conservative principles, a Ford intimate explained unkindly...
...other countries, a government would automatically have called out its army to put down the kind of civil unrest that beset Lebanon in the past fortnight. But Lebanon's 16,000-man armed forces, like the nation itself, are a special case. Since the high command is predominantly Christian, much of the Moslem population would have resented the army's presence-and the soldiers might have split along religious lines. So the government prudently allowed the troops to remain in barracks...