Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winter had stood for moderation on the race issue in the '50s and '60s, when it was unpopular and even dangerous to do so. He had opposed the conservative oligarchy in the state house since his election in the '40s, and had been instrumental in the passage of the state's first workman's compensation bill...
...debate does not seem to interest Congressmen who, in an election year, don't want to anger voters who think they need aid. Congressmen are finding the increase in the Social Security tax that passed in December to be immensely unpopular, and they would like to return some cash to the pockets they recently picked...
...CHUL clean its own house," Peter M. Lustiber '79, a convention delegate from Dudley House, said. "Our poll shows that CHUL is unpopular with the students. Why tie ourselves to that group...
Giscard was further burdened by his own lackluster Premier. Barre is a former economics professor who has pursued an unpopular austerity program. Last week he launched the government's campaign with a 30-point program of "action goals for liberty and justice"-mainly measures calculated to ease economic pressures on businesses and workers...
...Morarji Desai, who had succeeded her as Prime Minister after her humiliating defeat in last March's election. She also told her supporters that they should be "prepared to go to the jails and fill them in large numbers"-a prospect that was likely to become as unpopular with politicians as her mass sterilization program had proved to be with voters...