Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...level of teaching; it raises it. Any institution that does not judge competence within seven years is not likely ever to do so. Forcing a decision leads to weeding out deadwood that might otherwise remain on sufferance. More important, without tenure academic freedom would be unrealizable; teachers with unpopular ideas could be dropped at any time...
...necessity for increased expenditures had political repercussions. During the recession years 1957-62 taxes had to rise often more than once. Thought legislative majorities were usually entrenched by malapportionment, governors found themselves increasingly unpopular, and in 1962, most of the governors running for reelection were defeated. By contrast, only five incumbent U.S. Senators were beaten...
...start, the answer is simple: It must be won. Shriver, the Kennedy brother-in-law who had previously nursed the Peace Corps from dubious birth to wide acclaim, admits that the anti-poverty campaign has been and will continue to be "noisy, visible, dirty, uncomfortable and sometimes politically unpopular." He argues, nonetheless, that if it should fail, the loss would be crucially damaging...
...Supine Acquiescence." The House Armed Services Committee and four subcommittees have been investigating the Pentagon as if it were the Kremlin. Areport on McNamara's overall management of the war in Viet Nam and another on his politically unpopular decision to merge the Army Reserve with the National Guard are still under preparation. Of the three reports that have been released, one criticized McNamara's December decision to close, consolidate or cut back 149 military bases and warned that any future decisions on closings "must show a greater awareness of possible contingent requirements" resulting from Viet...
...certainly win reelection. The three Democrats who might have threatened Romney--Detroit's Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh. Attorney General Frank Kelley, and Congressman John Mackie--have refused to run against him, and the likely Democratic candidate, State Chairman Zoltan Ferency, is unknown to most of the state's voters and unpopular with most of the rest...