Word: discontentedness
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Scott, to be sure, was not Thorpe's only political problem. His electoral fortunes peaked in the Feb. 1974 election, when he lured enough discontented voters from both Labor and the Tories to poll an impressive 20% of the vote and won, with just 14 seats in the Commons...
> Ronald Reagan, by contrast, gains from his freshness on the national political scene. He has done unusually well for a challenger to an incumbent President. Reagan has benefited from a trend by more moderate Republicans to consider themselves independents, leaving the party more conservative than it was in 1972. Yet...
The size of the S.N.P. vote forced Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor Party to take note of these discontented rumblings from the north. Thus last week, Wilson, in the annual speech from the throne delivered by Queen Elizabeth, announced that his government planned to introduce legislation "devolving" some...
There are only three Latin American leaders with any sort of audience outside their own country: Fidel Castro, but he has somehow become slightly old-hat, either as a menace or an inspiration; Luis Echeverria of Mexico, presiding over a dynamic entrepreneurial economy while talking a medium-left, aggressively Third...
SALE ENGAGES IN some sociological speculations on why, in his view, the Rim has higher rates of crime, fraud, political corruption, and generally lower standards of ethics than the East. He theorizes that where there is a high rate of migration (450,000 annually), no stable class structure, and no...