Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only are we in the boonies, but our neighbors resent us as well. We don't live with other students who can share that mystical "experience." Both of the apartment complexes transfers are assigned to are inhabited primarily by graduate students, professors, and other Harvard employees; many have families and small children. And many of them resent their undergraduate neighbors...
Senior citizens deeply resent critics who seem to begrudge them their independence or imply that anyone ever got rich on a $500-a-month check. Many retirees worked hard, lived frugally and saved carefully to guard against the nightmare of a destitute old age. And while it is true the elderly consume roughly a third of the nation's medical resources, Medicare cannot begin to cover all the costs of a long illness. Already senior citizens pay three times as much out of their own pockets for health care as the young do. They view their benefits as a right...
Ever since Andrew Jackson led a revolt against big banks and the East Coast oligarchy, populism has been a powerful strand in American politics. The clash between those who represent entrenched power and those who resent it has rivaled the tension between liberalism and conservatism in defining American campaign showdowns. Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, like many of their predecessors, rode to power by tapping the electorate's anti-Establishment streak...
...Geneva, the former president of the Screen Actors Guild said he was reminded of his days dealing with the old studio moguls. Last week, awaiting the arrival of the world's most unlikely new superstar, Reagan came up with an even more fitting personal analogy. "I don't resent his popularity," the President told students in Jacksonville. "Good Lord, I co-starred with Errol Flynn once...
...trade with the Communist world. It is virtually impossible, many Europeans observe, to clench fists and shake hands at the same time. In an era of economic interdependence, they argue, Soviet economic growth could lead to a more sophisticated, more consumer-oriented and ultimately more peaceful U.S.S.R. Some allies resent what they feel is heavy-handed pressure from Washington to keep up cold war suspicions at the precise moment when many nations are working to ease tensions with the Soviet Union...