Word: popularization
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...President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has plenty of incentive to push his OPEC colleagues to vote for production cuts: If falling prices force his government to cut its heavy gasoline subsidies, he won't help his chances of reelection in a tough presidential race next June. "There is a lot of popular unrest when they cut subsidies or put on gas quotas," says Robert Johnston, Director of Energy for the Eurasia Group in Washington. For similar reasons, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez wants OPEC to cut production by about 1 million barrels a day, warning that his country would face dire economic problems...
...John McCain to cut America's dependence on foreign oil, especially from the volatile Middle East. That's because although it only accounts for about one-fifth of U.S. imports, oil from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Middle Eastern countries is much cheaper to produce than the more politically popular alternative of oil drilled in Canada or the United States...
...massages. As a neurosurgeon, I've never been completely convinced that the science behind them is all that sound. Yet there's no denying that they're popular - particularly among baby boomers and others who try to get active and stay fit with bodies that seem to grow achier all the time. But increasingly, research is showing that all those boomers may be onto something - that there are solid reasons for just about everyone to consider getting a good rubdown...
...another UC member approached to take part in the program, said he was initially concerned about the trial program’s lack of a forwarding feature, which he said may prevent students from sifting through hordes of e-mail with mail services like Gmail, which is popular among College students. Sundquist said the FAS IT department took this concern into account and that the new mail client will allow e-mail forwarding. Rumors have abounded that student class years may also be added to the new addresses, meaning that a current freshman would have an e-mail address that...
...legacy, says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a political analyst at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University - or the current divisions over him that have Thailand's people on the edge of violence. Sometimes said to be the most divisive political figure in Thailand's history, Thaksin remains enormously popular with the rural poor for his populist policies like cheap health care and easy credit. But the billionaire businessman is also still reviled by the urban middle class and conservatives, who view him as a corrupt authoritarian whose power and wealth posed a threat to the nation's revered monarchy...