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...some ways the impostor phenomenon resembles the better-known fear-of-success syndrome but differs in its underlying causes. For instance, while many people fear success because they believe that friends or relatives will think less of them, impostors tend to fear it because they do not believe they have earned it. Impostors also fear failure because they believe it is inevitable...
...regard as symbols of exploitation. Many blacks also resent the fact that under the new tricameral system, the Indians now have a voice in Parliament, however muted, whereas the blacks have none. Most of the time the two communities coexist in an uneasy peace, but periods of economic hardship tend to accentuate the differences between the have-nots and the have-littles...
Xiao has plenty of problems to tend to in Chongqing . For one thing, the city is woefully short of transportation. Says Chen Zhihui, the municipal planning commission's vice president: "There are not enough trucks, cars, trains or taxis. We have to plan to import more." Hotel space is insufficient, and air service is inadequate. Chongqing's airport lies in a valley that is fogbound so frequently in winter that one of every three flights must be canceled...
Those who sue are not primarily after a lot of money, the Iowa study showed (though their lawyers, often hired for a contingency fee, ask for large sums). They sue "to correct the record and to get even." Most tend to be public officials highly visible in their community. Their chance of winning in court is only one in ten. They persist against these odds because they want vindication...
...other. But when the U.S.S.R. began moving into Africa in the mid-1970s--particularly into Ethiopia and Angola, which figured so prominently in Reagan's speech--the U.S. accused the Kremlin of "violating" the spirit of détente, which was soon pronounced dead by numerous analysts. The Soviets, who tend to recognize not the spirit of agreements but only the letter, considered their expansionism as a right that came with their new status as a global superpower...