Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...philosophy of federalism to deal with Quebec, Trudeau successfully ran for Parliament in 1965. Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson soon after named him his parliamentary secretary and, in April 1967, appointed him Justice Minister. In that post, Trudeau attracted attention by his courage in steering through Parliament three unpopular measures: stricter gun-control legislation and reforms of harsh laws against abortion and homosexuality. Against critics of the liberalized homosexual law, Trudeau demonstrated his sense of irony. "Are we going to put all sin in the criminal code?" he asked them. "If so, it would be a pretty thick book...
...determining investment questions, there are indications that Harvard may currently switch its low-return Federal bonds to roughly comparable investments in Roxbury. The treasurer's job is made difficult by Harvard's system of financial solvency for each school: his decision to switch specific endowment investments from an unpopular company to a popular one might lower the revenue of the unlucky faculty that had originally received the endowment...
John Kennedy promised to "get this country moving again"; yet he did not remotely reach his legislative goals in Congress. Lyndon Johnson salvaged much of Kennedy's program; yet he sacrificed his grand consensus in the unpopular Viet Nam war. What defeats great presidential expectations...
They kept part of those promises. But as it turned out, Nenni, now 77, gave far more than he got. The Italian economy lost its fizz, and the Socialists found themselves forced to support their big coalition partner in a series of effective but unpopular anti-inflationary curbs that pinched consumer pocketbooks and cut back government expenditures on the promised social reforms. His United Socialists paid the price at the polls, winding up with a significantly reduced slice of Italy's political pizza (see chart...
...news of the arrests spread across campus, other students began jeering at police, tearing bricks from sidewalks to hurl through windows, and constructing barricades at campus entrances. Fires were lit in two academic buildings; in one, the unpublished research papers of an unpopular professor were used as kindling to feed the flames...