Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise and opposition from CHUL and several House committees. At the risk of catering to sectionalism, it is safe to say that the exclusion of Mather and Dunster Houses from the hot breakfast group is a short-sighted move, one that is insensitive to its impact on already unpopular Mather. To argue that the Mather-Dunster kitchen must be closed for breakfast to obtain maximum savings is specious: if the hot breakfast is to be rotated from House to House, as Fox has said he hopes to do, these savings will disappear next year anyway. Starting the cycle in Mather...
Most Republicans withheld comment this soon in the legislative battle. A few indicated that the fight would not be completely partisan. Declared Illinois Senator Charles Percy: "It's the greatest challenge any peacetime President ever gave the nation, and I don't think it's going to be as unpopular as the President says. He's in line with the underlying thinking of the people. The country wants leadership." Democratic Congressman Morris Udall likened some of the protest to imaginary congressional reaction on the day after Pearl Harbor: "You interviewed the Congressman from Detroit and he said, 'The Japanese attack...
...giggling, if only inwardly. A burly native of South Boston who has earned a name as one of the best narcotics lawyers in the business, Oteri began involving himself in drug law liberalization efforts and drug-related test cases almost 20 years ago when the job was not only unpopular but also dangerous. His downtown Boston office sums up his success at one glance: the sauna bath, the mirror-lined universal gym and the fully equipped kitchen, not to mention the receptionist. A member of the board of directors of the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML...
...Katangese invaders had obviously been trained and armed by the Angolans and their guests, the Cubans, with the support of the Soviet Union. At little cost or risk to themselves, the Cubans and the Soviets seemed to be using the Katangese rebels to try to overthrow Mobutu, an unpopular pro-Western leader who has at least managed to hold his sprawling, tribally divided nation together for nine years...
Nelson is a working class radical, not a fashionably left celebrity or secure academic, and he has sacrificed any chance for a comfortable, secure life in the support of unpopular causes. Few people recognize or appreciate the work Nelson and his fellow radicals have done and this seems to be a price he willingly paid. He does not speak harshly about his disappointments or opponents and instead, looks at the fruit which his actions helped to bear. What Nelson says about the effects of the brigade's actions in Spain on changing American opinion towards fascism small way we helped...