Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unpopular with the farmers, who miss Dan Evans, the more approachable Governor who served for twelve years before Ray. Her most dedicated enemies, though, are the more extreme environmentalists, whom she derides as radicals who "hate people." Ray's explanation: "The only way they like the earth is when it has no people on it ... because people, of necessity, change the environment [and] use its resources." But many others in the state, including farmers, fishermen and some businessmen, worry about her views on growth?that she wants to go too far too fast...
There have been songs written for Broadway musicals that did not receive the attention they deserved. Buried in unpopular shows, over-shadowed by other songs or left out because they didn't fit with the rest of the play, these songs ended up being forgotten. Nightcaps attempts to showcase some of them in an anthology of would-be hits. The result is an enjoyable glimpse of the good entertainment available in historical oblivion, but the production, like the songs themselves, falls just short of total success...
...split the two gubernatorial races. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne, whose self-effacing campaign style consists of a strained smile and straight-arm salute, came from way behind to swamp Republican State Senator Ray Bateman, who tripped up in trying to propose an alternative to the unpopular state income tax. Virginia's Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton easily moved up in rank by beating Democrat "Howlin' " Henry Howell, a big-business-baiting populist who can make the Lord's Prayer sound like Lenin's urging an assault on the Winter Palace...
...Howell was his own worst enemy in Virginia, Republican Ray Bateman precipitated the re-election of Governor Byrne in New Jersey. Byrne had become a most unpopular figure (last April, according to a Rutgers University poll, only 17% of New Jerseyans thought he was doing a good job), and his lifeless image led many Democrats to dub him "one-term Byrne." But in order to win the Republican nomination, Bateman had to carry the conservative vote, which he did by strongly opposing the state income tax, and that position gave Byrne a chance to go on the offensive. The Governor...
...power is vested in the people, and if the elected officials won't respond to what the people want, then we'll do something about it.' " Many politicians are delighted about the trend, though for a less-than-lofty reason. If an issue is unpopular, putting it on the ballot for the people to decide is an easy way out for the officeholder. Among the multitude of issues decided last week...