Word: overpopularity
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...would be a startling comeback for a man who rose to become Prime Minister at 45 in 1996, but was then trounced by Ehud Barak in the 1999 general election. Netanyahu built his reputation on polished speechmaking and free-market economics in a country where neither had ever been overpopular. But Netanyahu also came across as a demagogue who did not speak out when his supporters circulated a poster portraying then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform. Netanyahu may or may not have changed his spots; the intifadeh, however, has undoubtedly made Israel more susceptible...
...Fisher became Bishop of Chester, and later, Bishop of London. After the death of Archbishop William Temple in 1944, Winston Churchill appointed him to the see of Canterbury. His appointment was not overpopular. One London paper ticked him off as "an old-school-tie bishop...
...years Gauss served in China. Hard-boiled and short-spoken, he was not overpopular with U.S. citizens in Shanghai, where he was consul general-but he got things done. Working with Admiral Yarnell when the Japanese poured into Shanghai, he was known as a man who would not backtrack before the Japanese. When he emerged from his conferences over the administration of the International Settlement, attaches would pass word around that the consul general had won his point: "Gauss is boss...
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