Word: backlashing
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...often shifted the tax burden from businesses to homes means that 85 percent of Massachusetts homes will pay more property tax than before the law passed. When this takes effect, he says, taxpayers will come back with a far more disruptive tax cut. Kraus hopes to avert such a backlash...
...surface, it my seem that mid-Cambridge, long reputed for its liberal bent, is now witnessing a conservative backlash. Yet the philosophy behind the Square's current controversy is far from evangelical. For neighborhood groups, the liquor and video game battles are merely two skirmishes in a full-scale war for the preservation of the square...
...assert its predetermined stance on civil rights policies. Even the Boston case, which presents the legitimate constitutional question of whether seniority plans are exempt from remedial affirmative action, is by no means a glaring case of unwarranted reverse discrimination. All race-conscious hiring plans seem destined to create some backlash for white workers, and courts have repeatedly asserted that it is not unreasonable to ask whites to forego advantage they enjoy because of prior discrimination...
...year after C.Z. came out, Brenda Frazier became "America's No. 1 Glamour Deb." Her name and photograph were everywhere during 1938, including the cover of LIFE, and there was a backlash: people would sometimes hiss when she walked into a restaurant. Frazier died last May-after a nervous breakdown, two marriages and a notoriously messy liaison with a titled Italian playboy-still bitter about her overwhelming deb year. "Brenda Frazier was my parents' friend," Cornelia says. "So sad. But I don't want to read about her until I get older...
...sure, the Reagan Administration has badly mismanaged the presentation of this paradox. It has talked far too often, too simplistically and too provocatively about nuclear war. It has pursued rearmament indiscriminately and disarmament unconvincingly. Thus it has created a backlash against even legitimate efforts to strengthen U.S. defenses-and rendered itself vulnerable to caricatures like Scheer...