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Although the Afro-Am chair said there waspotential for backlash from scholars who might beturned away by such campus unrest, so far, sheadded, she has seen none...
...biggest setback came in California, where Proposition 128, Big Green, was defeated almost 2 to 1. A second measure, Forests Forever, designed to ban clear-cutting and save old-growth forests and redwoods, lost by a narrower margin. In part they fell victim to a backlash against the sheer number of ballot propositions -- 28 in all -- that Californians had to contend with in the voting booth. "They voted no on everything," laments Lynn Sadler, campaign director for Forests Forever. Big Green was a ballot buster all by itself, a 16,000-word laundry list of aims, including...
...inability to resolve crises has been the downfall of male leaders. The popular backlash against their widows and daughters may prove equally cruel. What greater faithlessness can there be than the mother of the nation failing her people? Having come to power as emblems of national emotions, women leaders like Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro remain at the mercy of those emotions. Their original strength lay in their symbolism, but without substance, their legacies are bound to vanish...
Worse, the chill wind of recession is in the air. Overall European growth will slow as oil prices climb. Paul Horne, the chief international economist for Smith Barney in Paris, points to recent protests in France over cheap meat imports from E.C. partners as signs of a potential "backlash against increased competition, industrial as well as agricultural, that can be expected." Nor will rising oil prices affect all E.C. countries equally. The dislocations triggered by the gulf crisis are bound to test the strength of European cohesion...
Sensitive to the brewing backlash against Japanese investors, Matsushita officers are taking pains to characterize the MCA bid as a proposed "merger," a word with less aggressive overtones than "takeover." While many Japanese bureaucrats are uncomfortable about Matsushita's high-profile shopping trip, the government would not interfere with the acquisition of MCA. The Japanese know that in the 1990s hardware and software will go together like song and dance...