Word: sentimental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, harsh sentiment against the refugees is growing. "Nobody knows who all these people are," says Brownsville trailer-court owner Bob White. "They could be terrorists, or bandits, or typhoid carriers." Harlingen Mayor Bill Card says his city decided to expel the INS from a registration post to send a signal to the Bush Administration that the area needs more help from Washington. Says he: "We have not been able to get the cooperation and attention of the Federal Government...
...that's when admissions officers squirm and struggle. A daughter of Indian immigrants who was raised in Niskayuna, New York, (pop. about 5000), Subramanian is the big fish for whom the lure of recruitment programs like pre-frosh weekend are intended. And it is her attitude that captures a sentiment more common among pre-frosh in April than in February...
...staff member of Lamont Library, I would like to comment on Ken Lee's disparaging remarks about Lamont. While "I hate Lamont" unfortunately seems to be a widespread and hastily uttered sentiment, it makes me sick at heart every time I hear it. Even worse are scenes I have witnessed at the circulation desk of Lamont. A patron becomes abusive when the desk worker refuses to tell him or her which of the four other people in the patron's tutorial currently has the only copy of the reserve reading. A professor, or more likely his stressed-out head...
Voke thus positioned the House leadership on the side of what many House members believe is the prevailing popular sentiment against any tax increase. The House budget plan presents members with a clear alternative to the higher spending and $604 million tax increase advocated by Dukakis...
When the huge cost of the cleanup hit home last week, so did a strong sentiment in favor of pursuing the fraudulent thrift owners who made off with the loot. Regulators have estimated that at least one in every four S & L failures has been the result of fraud. In fact, the Bush rescue plan proposes to give the Justice Department an additional $50 million a year for probing S & L fraud, a sum that would pay for 200 new investigators and 100 more prosecutors...