Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aden fears that the sheikdoms will drain off the relative prosperity it enjoys as a major world port. The sheiks claim that they do not have enough say in the Federation government, and that Aden has too much. The government, a collection of moderates installed by the British, is unpopular with the Adenis themselves, whose sentiments are divided between two Nasserite organizations, the National Liberation Front (N.L.F.) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (F.L.O.S.Y.). And each of the two organizations is at war with the other...
Brown is more concerned with concrete achievements and failures than with intangible sociological phenomena, but his explanation for his loss is particularly apt. Certainly his sponsorship of an unpopular fair housing act, the Watts and Fillmore riots, and repeated demonstrations at Berkeley also played a part in his loss, but behind these issues lies a more important truth about California: the state today is very different from what it was eight years ago, when Brown was first elected governor. And Brown's mistake was that he realized this too late -- after the election...
Romney was never one to buck consensus opinions or to favor unpopular policies, and this speech was no exception. His stand perfectly suited his apolifical image. Romney always has preferred to campaign on his pure character and successful administration rather than on policies, and he was very much in character when he stated at Hartford that the war should not be made a matter of partisan politics...
When questioned about his own expediency--whether he would report his findings in Vietnam, even if they were unpopular in the U.S.--Romney was outraged. Why, the idea. He waved his finger at the questioner while rattling off a sanctimonious reply...
...government moved firmly against labor, he hopped into his light blue Avro jetprop early in the week and took off on a six-day visit to Argentina's remote, southern region of Patagonia. "I have no other solution for the country," he shrugs, "but to be unpopular...