Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, some are beginning to question the system. Parents are less likely to approve of the state's stifling embrace of their promising children, and East Germany's recreational athletes resent the millions dedicated to the elite. East German stars would like the state to take a smaller share of the millions they earn in Western appearance fees. Consider the revolutionary statement of World Class Sprinter Silke Moller last month. "Material concerns should never stand in the foreground in sports," said Moller. "But they can play a role, even for G.D.R. athletes...
...dominate the political landscape. Even his failures, the most monumental being the nation's mounting debt, have served to constrain the discussion. Recalling Reagan's record as Governor of California in a lead editorial recently, the Los Angeles Times noted that "in subtle ways, Reagan made it acceptable to resent assistance to poor people. No longer was there emphasis on the citizens fulfilling their collective responsibility to society through the vehicle of government...
...arrange, some day next week -- before Wednesday -- to bring, or send, me such fragments of correspondence as still exist?" The writer continues, "In one sense, as I told you, I am indifferent to the fate of this literature. In another sense, my love of order makes me resent the way in which inanimate things survive their uses!" Edith Wharton, then 47, was referring to her love letters in the possession of Morton Fullerton, a charming rotter who alternately pursued and ignored her. She was also, and none too subtly, trying to make her unpredictable suitor do something -- anything. But Fullerton...
...being sued by the city because, though it admits women members, it keeps one dining room for men only. At some clubs the opposition to women has been dwindling with the increase in younger members accustomed to treating women as working colleagues. "It's the entrenched guys who resent the intrusion on their old turf," suggests Alan Baker, a 25-year member of the New York Athletic Club. But even some older men, mindful of their career-conscious daughters, have been having second thoughts. Says Cosmos Club President Tedson Meyers: "If you listen closely, you could hear them saying...
Efforts to pass similar legislation in California, Connecticut and other states have met unblinking resistance from business interests. Companies that have provided workers with VDT basics like more comfortable chairs and detachable keyboards and have introduced voluntary safety standards resent government intrusion. Memphis-based Federal Express started dealing with issues of computer-screen safety and comfort as far back as 1983. The company has since installed state-of-the-art workstations and provided 100% coverage of vision care...