Word: backlashing
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...entry are now scheduled for mid-May in Brussels. If the six Market members (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and West Germany) do not agree in principle to British admission by July, Heath, who must face his party conference in October, is certain to run into a severe backlash in Britain. The Prime Minister and his Conservative Party remain committed to seeking EEC membership, but the British public is less enthusiastic. Food prices would rise 26% after entry, pushing up the cost of living an estimated 4% to 5%. Many Britons also resent the EEC's implied surrender...
...would be a tribute to white paranoia, of course, if racial backlash alone could sabotage a poverty program in Massachusetts that would aid almost entirely whites. Many popular conceptions have mistaken the pluralism of poverty- the poor are the elderly and disabled citizens, more often farmers than Boston teenagers, and some are working poor who support themselves on low and undependable earnings. To help any one category of the poor requires several agencies and Beer wisely suggests that the state divide poverty programs into areas, considering the different mixes of the poor in each. But since the plan...
...from the start. Its distributors, American International Pictures, saw it as "a youth-oriented picture," suggesting groovy moors and Now people suffering Then hang-ups. Its significance is, finally, not aesthetic but historic. AIP, former king of motorcycle and beach-blanket flicks, has become a leader of the romantic backlash. In one fell swipe, it has disavowed its sleazy origins, bypassed the grind houses and landed the distributors' dream. Wuthering Heights will open at the ultimate Temple of Memory, Radio City Music Hall, sandwiched between an act called "The Educated Dogs" and a musical salute to Stephen Foster. Next...
...would combat this type of inflation more effectively than a budget hold-down. But Nixon is running a serious risk of making a relatively good year look disappointing by predicting faster improvement than can be realistically expected. That could produce an economic as well as a psychological and political backlash. One reason that consumers are so skeptical now is that they remember earlier Nixon forecasts of noninflationary prosperity -which proved wrong...
Kissinger expressed fears that a severe rightwing backlash could arise in the United States if U.S. troops were withdrawn too quickly and the present South Vietnamese government fell...