Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic trouble stems from politics. With elections coming next year, Chile's Congress has balked at the important but unpopular reforms on the Klein & Saks program. The Congress refused a 20% cut in government staff, and government expenses rose this year instead of dropping, as planned. It also balked at an antitrust bill to curb monopolistic, inflationary practices in the lumber, paper, cement and tobacco industries. Meanwhile, the government itself hesitated to tighten collections of income taxes, which are high in theory but evaded in practice. And the armed services continued to waste money; e.g., the Navy still keeps...
Never afraid to speak his mind, Weir urged negotiations with the Russians to end the cold war when such talk was unpopular. Meanwhile he steadily pushed National Steel into position as the nation's sixth biggest producer (1956 sales: $664 million). When, after a severe heart attack, he finally stepped down as chairman and chief executive this spring, he was the last U.S. steelman still running a major company he had founded. Last week, at 81, Ernest Tener Weir died in Philadelphia of the infirmities of great...
Wrote Warren: "The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify, against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern matters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reaction in the life of the witness may be disastrous . . . Those who are identified by witnesses and thereby placed in the same glare of publicity are equally subject to public stigma, scorn and obloquy...
...recently defeated government. Billeres backed away ("I didn't consider myself qualified"), but he had a candidate in mind: fellow Radical Socialist Maurice Bourgés-Maunoury. 42. the Defense Minister in Mollet's government. Thus, without seeming to promote a former minister who was unpopular in Socialist ranks on account of his aggressive Algerian policy, Mollet obliquely named his man. It was the signal that ambitious Bourgés-Maunoury had been waiting for. Said he, after 45 minutes with President Coty: "The nation needs a government. Being in Defense, I know...
Syria may not be to blame for everything troublesome in the Middle East these days, but it tries to help when it can. Nasser's only devoted ally in the Arab world, and Communist-infiltrated to a degree that Egypt is not, Syria is finding itself unpopular on every one of its borders. The Syrians dislike the Turks to the north only a little less than they hate the Israelis on the south. They quarrel bitterly with the pro-Western Iraqis on their east. And last week, after Syria had glumly withdrawn its 4,000 troops from Jordan...