Word: unpopular
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Trudeau's other immediate problem is finding a way to exploit the extraordinary burst of nationwide support which followed his election as Liberal leader. Because this kind of enthusiasm is certain to wane as the new P.M. is forced to make unpopular decisions, Trudeau is expected to call a general election at the first opportunity, in hopes of improving on his government's minority position in the House of Commons. Such a move may pay politically, but the burden of an election campaign will certainly add to the already considerable problems facing Canada's unconventional man in his first difficult...
...Except by the Daily News, a Republican paper in Welch, which editorialized: "Bobby Kennedy is uninvited, unwanted, undesirable, unethical, unfit, unloved, unprepared, unshorn, unpopular and overrated...
...itself is unpopular, and most students would rather gamble on the uncertainties of the draft than join cadet programs, which include at least two years' active duty as a military officer. Besides, the current college generation takes an anti-Establishment view that scoffs at polished buttons and stiff-necked discipline. A military regimen has become an unappealing burden to add to academic chores...
More important, Tennessee has become a two-party state. In 1964 Gore's Goldwater-Republican opponent charged that the Senator was too liberal for Tennessee. Gore polled only 54 per cent of the vote, and that was before he announced his unpopular opposition...
Rockefeller was showing his own brand of courage by sticking to a manifestly unpopular course. When asked how the dispute would affect his chances for the Republican presidential nomination, he grinned and replied: "To hell with...