Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each company's annual average during 1962-64. Moreover, the Government will count undistributed profits of subsidiaries abroad as foreign investment, thus thwarting companies that have been keeping profits overseas in lieu of borrowing. To restrict another source of dollar drain, the Administration will extend the unpopular 15% interest-equalization tax on foreign borrowing in the U.S. to ten more countries (33 in all), including the oil states of the Middle East. Throwing a bone to the banks, it will allow a 4% increase in overseas loans next year (to 109% of their 1964 level...
...more than a quarter of a century, Lewis B. Hershey has directed the largest and most unpopular employment bureau in the world. During World War II, he drafted more than 10.1 million men; when the war ended, "no one else wanted the job, so I stayed on." Hershey's philosophy is simple: "We count 'em, cart 'em and send 'em." He has spent most of his career supplying manpower to the military, but he thinks himself as much a politician as a soldier. And he has enormous faith in the wisdom of his "constituents" -- the 4,000 local draft boards...
...enough to make Rhodesia feel more than a mild pinch, especially since prosperous South Africa would help Rhodesia make up any trade losses. But there was good reason for Wilson's stand. The blood ties between Britain and the white settlers of Rhodesia would make sterner measures highly unpopular.* And, as Wilson well knows, any recession in Rhodesia would hit the Africans harder than the whites. Smith has already threatened to deport 200,000 workers back to Malawai, a measure that would cripple Rhodesia's poverty-stricken neighbor, which depends heavily on their wages...
...these measures cannot be implemented unless Wilson increass his majority in Commons and solidifies his position within the party. To impose the unpopular restraints which will be necessary for Britain's economic reform, Wilson will need more than a mere three vote margin. He cannot rely on the extraordinary combination of good luck and enthusiasm that enabled Labour to govern in 1965. His backbenchers are tired of the midnight votes and the continual fear of surprise defeat...
Treating sin in a straightforward manner is not popular in the modern theater. But Alfred does not shy away from the conventionally unpopular. His play not only deals openly with sin and guilt, but it deals with them in a frankly religious context. Hogan's Goat is a Catholic play in subject and outlook. As the curtain falls a hard, righteous priest who is no way a hypocrite tells a sobbing woman on a starkly-lit stage that perhaps she should cry for us all. There are no apologies made for sin; regeneration comes only with confession and repentance...