Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excuse incompetence, or exempt professors from criticism." College professors have not asked for the kind of exemption you describe. They do insist that they be protected from unwarranted assaults when they teach or do research in controversial areas, or when in the performance of their duties they take unpopular positions. Likewise they ask protection from attack by forces which would deny them the ordinary liberties to which all members of the civil community are entitled. In return, they pledge themselves, as members of a learned profession and as responsible citizens, "at all times (to) be accurate, (to) exercise appropriate restraint...
...work, the National Union of Railwaymen has called a three-day protest walkout for mid-May. Wilson, who is grimly aware of the damage dealt Labor by a crippling London transport strike before the 1959 election, attempted repeatedly last week to make the railwaymen call off their unpopular walkout, but made little headway. Prayed a Tory Cabinet minister: "Just give us that strike, and watch the votes pour into our laps...
...these distinctions make the central concept all the stronger. Columbia's Physicist Isidor I. Rabi defines academic freedom as "the right to knowledge and the free use thereof." It is every professor's responsibility "to discover, speak and teach the truth, however difficult and unpopular this may be to others," says the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina. "One cannot search for the truth with a closed mind or without the right to question and doubt at every step," says University of Chicago President George Beadle, who in his time has found...
Promises & Threats. The Tories still faced a long, hazardous haul. Politically and economically, the biggest roadblock is that industry will not be able to expand and compete in world markets without vigorous, unpopular measures to hold wage boosts to half their rate of increase over the past decade. On the bright side, economists now believe that, by fall, Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling's canny budget (TIME, April 12) will have boosted production, whittled unemployment and put extra spending money in lower-income pockets. In fact, many Tory M.P.s now fear that if the government waits until next...
Threats of Reprisal. Unlike U.S. steelmen, who bank their furnaces when demand drops but keep prices fairly steady, the Europeans prefer to slash prices and keep production high to avoid politically unpopular layoffs and the expensive overhead of idle plants. In addition, Belgium and Luxembourg, argue that they must export at almost any price to get foreign exchange to finance their heavy imports. The angry Common Marketeers contend that the U.S.'s anti-dumping law is outmoded in that it restricts free trade, but they have little hope that the U.S. Government will do anything to encourage further competition...