Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION WAS DETERmined to get it right. Haunted by the Zoe Baird debacle, officials vowed there would be no premature announcement, no surprise about illegal aliens, no misreading of public sentiment. So, while staff members completed their check of candidates for the post of Attorney General, the White House floated the name of New York Federal District Judge Kimba Wood to coax any opposition out into the open. When none emerged, word leaked from the White House that the Wood nomination was almost a sure thing. Then last Friday night came the awful deja vu. Again...
Despite student sentiment that there are currently no tensions between the Black and Jewish communities, leaders of both groups say the panel--unprompted by crisis or conflict--will help the efforts to improve a historically rocky relationship...
...Nationalism was the strongest sentiment for the Russian people. But you have to understand, things weren't discussed, there were only cliches but people couldn't really talk or try to reformulate anything. This international Marxist ideology became for 70 years a part of Russian identity. So when it was cut off, it created confusion--the situation of anomie, and one was only able to find clear identity in the old traditional nationalism that was not contaminated by association of Communism...
...That sentiment was echoed by a recent posting on the WELL. "I didn't get to pop some 'shrooms and dance naked in a park with several hundred of my peers," wrote a cyberpunk wannabe who calls himself Alien. "To me, and to a lot of other generally disenfranchised members of my generation, surfing the edges...
...district attorney and at least 52 candidates for mayor. Yet in the streets the frustration and despair that helped trigger last year's violence show little change. "People are anxious about these trials," says Karen Bass, director of a substance-abuse center with headquarters in South Central. "There is sentiment that the lid could blow off again because people don't feel that their concerns are being addressed. No one wants to see the same thing happen again, but it is a real possibility. People don't know what to expect." In a recent poll by CBS News...