Word: resenting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Some resentments are understandable on the most instinctive level. I understand a woman who, walking home, immediately fears a man she sees on the street. I understand how a person of color may be wary of being harassed by a white police officer. And I understand how someone can resent like hell those who have their basic needs met automatically, seemingly effortlessly, and who have opportunities that they might not even deserve...
...examine three portfolios guarded by his assistants. "You won't look long because you just ate," Helms warned the curious, who stepped forward to peer at reproductions of the Robert Mapplethorpe nudes from the show partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. "Tell me whether you resent taxpayers' money going to this!" boomed the Senator...
Should Iraq move against the Saudis, scholarssay, the U.S. would be justified in takingmilitary action. But experts warned that just asthe U.S. worked hard to coordinate multinationalsanctions, it should try to encouragemultinational military responses, lest otherMiddle East nations resent a unilateral Americanintrusion into their affairs...
...Kids resent imputations that their show is canned and that they continue to play Pinocchios to Starr's funky Gepetto. Says Jon Knight: "I think we have a lot of spontaneity, if there is such a word." Beefs Wahlberg: "People don't give us credit. Janet Jackson sat down with her producers and came up with the concept of Rhythm Nation. That's the same thing we did with our album." If there is a unifying concept behind Step by Step, it is one of forthright -- indeed, brazen -- commercial calculation, which is one thing that sets the Kids apart from...
First it was the Italians and the Jews. Now it is the Koreans. Each new group of immigrants has arrived in New York City scratching for a foothold. They open Mom and Pop stores in the cheapest neighborhoods and, as they succeed, stir the resentment of longtime residents who are often mired in poverty. South Korean immigrants now own 2,500 of the more than 3,000 fruit and vegetable stores in the New York City area. Blacks often resent the newcomers' ability to garner profits from their community. Differences in class and culture as well as stubborn myths have...