Word: backlashing
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...this trust was given grudgingly--people who have voted Democratic all their lives would often rather fight than switch. Reagan's victory was a cautious mandate born of desperation, not an enthusiastically written blank check. The failure of Reaganomics to deliver jobs sets the stage for an especially harsh backlash heightened by blue-collar feelings of betrayal...
...conference started with shrill accusations that the Administration had "rigged" committee assignments to affirm President Reagan's views. Worried about the growing backlash against the White House, President Reagan made an unscheduled appearance to dispel doubts that he was "somehow an enemy of my own generation." The conclave ended Thursday with shouts of protest as 2,266 delegates were compelled to approve or reject a package of 600 often contradictory resolutions with a single yes or no vote...
...beginnings of a cube backlash, though, are already apparent. Ballantine Books has published Not Another Cube Book, an anticube treatise that tells readers "How to Live with a Cubaholic" and "How to Kick the Habit." Entrepreneurs Steven and Roger Hill of Menlo Park, Calif., have produced what they call "the ultimate solution": the Cube Smasher, a plastic paddle guaranteed to pound the puzzle to bits. So far they have sold 100,000. Those who resort to the Cube Smasher may also be interested in a paperback released this month by Tor Books. Its title: 101 Uses for a Dead Cube...
...sufficiently aware of the danger of anti-Semitism in the U.S. Presumably he had in mind the warning, expressed privately by some Administration lobbyists to Senators and then openly by Republicans Mark Hatfield of Oregon and William Cohen of Maine, that defeat of the AWACS sale might cause a backlash of public opinion against Israel and its American Jewish supporters...
...Atlanta, which likes to call itself "the city too busy to hate," Jackson's remarks were widely criticized. Some in Young's camp feared that the racial epithets would provoke a biracial backlash against their candidate. Indeed, though Young ended up winning 55% of the total vote, he took only 10.6% of white ballots, down from the 12% he won in a preliminary election. He captured 88.4% of the black vote, up from 61% earlier. Blacks account for 67% of Atlanta's 425,000 residents, and 56% of the electorate...