Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passengers to Pan Am's 30,700. As for subsidies, Northwest had previously said that it would fly the route without Government subsidy, expected to be self-supporting by 1956. From other sources Ike also got a quick inkling that his decision against Northwest was highly unpopular in Minnesota and the Northwest, with Democrats ready to capitalize...
...turned out that their experiment, though born out of innocent curiosity, violated a college ruling against publicizing the Wellesley name without official sanction. And in addition, the "Syndicate" members suddenly became rather unpopular with their dorm-mates, who found it hard to get used to the 3 a.m. telephone calls...
...plan for compulsory national health insurance went into effect in Sweden, replacing voluntary plans which (with state aid) had covered 65% of the population. To extend coverage to all citizens, the state will now triple its payments, to $150 million a year, and will raise the money by an unpopular hike in liquor taxes. Unlike the British system, which foots the entire doctor's bill, Sweden's plan will pay only 75% and calls for direct contributions by individuals (a man earning $2,000 will pay $36 to insure his family). Costly drugs will be free and many...
...Communist Party in the U.S., and mother of his three sons; after long illness; in Yonkers, N.Y. Raissa Berkman married Browder in Moscow in 1926, entered the U.S. from Canada in 1933, waged a four-year fight to avoid deportation on grounds of illegal entry. In a politically unpopular decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals permitted her to leave the country and re-enter as a quota immigrant in 1944. She was later barred from naturalization, at the time of her death was again subject to deportation and, with her husband, under perjury indictment on charges of falsely denying Communist...
...picture would not look so bleak here were there not the striking similarities between the case of Professor Furry and the case of Dr. Singer. If anything, the formers testimony is more unpopular since he admitted previous membership in the Communist Party...