Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Montana. Plodding, conscientious Lawyer Don Nutter, 44, a self-styled "pretty progressive Republican," is catching up on Democratic Lieutenant Governor Paul Cannon, 58, who has a reputation for zany unpredictability and some unpopular ultra-liberal ties, e.g., the Red-lining Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers...
...handsome Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi has spent all the $265 million a year his country gets from oil revenues and quite a bit more. Now Iran faces a balance of payments deficit of $130 million over the next two years. Until recently, the Shah has ignored the unpopular advice of Western economic advisers, who told him the deficit could have been avoided by vigorously curbing domestic inflation, and by clamping down on the import of luxury items that use up the hard currencies desperately needed for economic development...
...noted counsel, who has defended any unpopular clients, including , Hoffa, and Goldfine, asserted that committees should have the privileges of evidence before recommending . However, they should never given the opportunity to "castigate, , and degrade witnesses...
...knows better than Beuve-Méry how difficult it is for the foreigner to classify Le Monde. "We have," he says, "run through the whole gamut of American adjectives -leftist, independent, authoritative, highly respected." It has been all these. And in its day it has taken many unpopular stands, and some odd ones...
Goldwater's case was rejected by his own party at Chicago, when it adopted a platform containing virtually none of the Arizona Senator's proposals. It did so, according to some critics, less out of conviction than from a belief that Goldwater's views were unpopular with the voters. Goldwater's Conservatism (always with a capital "C") is, after all, a rather extreme brand. It is based, pre-eminently, on the strictest possible construction of the Constitution, a concept most voters don't even understand, much less enthusiastically embrace...