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...help that police morale is low countrywide after the government imposed a below-inflation pay deal on them; in May, officers voted to lobby the government for the right to strike, an entitlement they lost in 1919. They also complain that targets set by politicians encourage a statistics-driven culture in which minor offenses are followed up to inflate detection rates. Every incident, no matter how trivial, enmeshes cops in red tape when they could be out on the beat...
...China's heavy-handed policies in both Xinjiang and Tibet. "We have to watch the government's reaction carefully," says Bequelin. "They shouldn't use this as an excuse to become even more oppressive. If people don't have the space to express the grievances they will be driven to support more extreme means of demonstrating their discontent...
...while condemning the violence used to achieve them - want the French government to protect them from a rapidly globalizing market. Foreign wine from cheaper producers such as Italy, Spain, Australia, the U.S. and South America - where costs can be one-fifth those in France - has saturated the market and driven down demand for locally grown grapes. That has depressed the price Languedoc-Roussillon growers get for their crops up to 50% in recent years...
...paper, Oakland should be McCain territory. His politics don't emphasize the kind of social conservatism that has driven many of the county's Republican voters away from the GOP in recent years. And he's a known quantity--independents and Democrats cast votes for him in the 2000 GOP primary to spite then governor John Engler, who had promised to deliver the state for George W. Bush. "A lot of people still have an affinity for John McCain," says Oakland University political scientist "David Dulio. "They voted for him once, and he might be able to take advantage...
...inflation. If they thought washing the floors, driving the cars and cleaning the windows of the middle class would open the doors to a better life, they know now that they were wrong. With prices rising, their savings are being eaten away. Higher food and fuel prices are being driven by big changes in the global economy that look set to continue. Even the most cheerful optimist in the past decade has seen the huge divide between the haves and have-nots, but the hope has persisted that it would somehow go away. Inflation has set like cement into that...