Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saying that there is a point beyond which you cannot go in asking people to bear the cost of government. While this idea is probably too deep for the comprehension of Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the average voter may be more in favor of Reagan's so-called "unpopular moves" than Schlesinger thinks. VINCENT M. LOVE Manhattan...
...sensed the voters' "go slow" attitude in last fall's campaign, and have not noted any perceptible change since. Yet Johnson was determined that open housing be included, if only "because it is decent and right." Said he: "Injustice must be opposed, however difficult or unpopular the issue...
...School was created by a group of former Columbia University professors-including Historian Charles Beard, Philosopher James Harvey Robinson and Economists Wesley Mitchell and Alvin Johnson-who felt that Columbia limited their freedom to teach unconventional courses and express unpopular views. By the early '30s, the New School had gained a certain vogue as a center of night-school uplift for left-wing intellectuals. It acquired new academic respectability in the mid-'30s by creating a "University in Exile" on the talents of about 50 European scholars who had fled fascism in Germany and Italy and formed...
Reagan's critics crowed mightily over his troubles. Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who of late has become something of an omnibus oracle, pronounced in Los Angeles that Reagan, by making such unpopular moves, "has eliminated himself from national politics." In fact, the Governor had acted with fidelity to his campaign promises. "When you're spending $1,000,000 a day you don't have," he warned last week, "it is quite a crisis." Moreover, Reagan hopes to relieve sorely abused property owners, whose tax loads have increased 169% in ten years...
...cotton exports. In November, the IMF, the World Bank and AID agreed to grant a stand-by loan that would give Colombia time to diversify and lessen its dependence on coffee. But there was a catch: Colombia had to devalue its peso, a move that would be highly unpopular. Lleras flatly refused, stirred up nationalistic fires in Colombians by informing them that "the governing of the nation was entrusted to us and not to the international organizations." With that, he imposed stiff exchange controls, froze all foreign exchange, cut imports by 44% and plastered the country with "Buy Colombian" billboards...