Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shows went down the drain, and the development price of replacement programming costs a budget-breaking $50 million. Audience Surveys officials claim that their system is 92% accurate; that is, their pretesting weeds out all but 8% of the shows that are destined to be unpopular. Yet most scriptwriters, performers and directors echo the sentiments of Producer Brod kin, who argues that the system is "devised for idiots by idiots...
...poll so few votes that they will only underscore the weakness of their cause. Nor are the people who are running in Democratic (or occasionally Republican) primaries against pro-Administration Congressmen likely to achieve many victories. Howard Morgan's decisive loss in Oregon suggests that opposition to an admittedly unpopular war is not enough to overcome the advantages held by incumbent candidates...
...President realizes already that his actions are widely unpopular, and he will soon realize, if he doesn't already, that the results of these actions are likely to be even more unpopular. However, he also knows that the more harmful unpopularity comes from those who prefer escalation to withdrawal. If the present policy were ruled out as an alternative, the public would prefer expansion of the war to withdrawal by a 2-1 margin, according to the Stanford-Chicago poll...
Spelling Out the Rules. Heyns listened to all suggestions for new campus rules that would ensure a free flow of faculty and student opinion on any topic, however unpopular. Then he spelled out the rules clearly-and insisted that they be followed. He urged Oakland city officials to issue parade permits to students demonstrating against the Viet Nam war; but after the protesters erected a sign board larger than the rules permitted, he ordered it torn down. Similarly, Communist Bettina Aptheker, an F.S.M. leader, and two Vietnik friends last February held two rallies in a week on Sproul Hall steps...
...Flint, Mich., Episcopal Father Erville Maynard lunches weekly with officials from General Motors' Buick division. The conversation turns on such problems as what to do when an employee is ostracized for out standing performance, or how to improve factory morale that has gone sour because of an unpopular promotion...