Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Committee chairman said the bill would be beaten because any tax increase is unpopular. Although he is in favor of the measure, Doherty said that the bill was weak because it failed to earmark specifically the funds for aid to education. Instead, local governments are allowed to use them for administration or welfare programs. He also said he opposed another plan to increase revenue by instituting a statewide sales...
...president of Arthur D. Little, Inc., economic consultants, emphasized three "illusions," held in the State Department two years ago, that are showing up now in strained Franco-American relations. Some policy-makers then believed that President de Gaulle "wouldn't last long," that his nuclear policy would prove unpopular within France, and that "he wouldn't get rid of Algeria...
...radicals. Lowell had stood out against his own class before and would do so again. When alumni were calling for the resignation of Felix Frankfurter, who aided the defense during the Sacco case, Lowell would have nothing of it. He supported the League of Nations when that was an unpopular cause and refused to fire Harold Laski when alumni pressure for the socialist's dismissal was intense...
Flashy Cassius Marcellus Clay won a fight last night but his narrow, unpopular decision victory may have ended his brief and brash career as tribune of the fight fans...
...read your article on "Urban Renewal" in the March 6 CRIMSON with great interest. Your portrayal of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's failure to mobilize the community in favor of the Donnelly Field project illustrates one of the chief reason why urban renewal often falls flat or is highly unpopular with residents of the areas affected by projects...