Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schoolgirl, Wertmuller already had a wholly individual notion of protest. Refused permission to leave the room because the school superintendent was coming for inspection, little Lina waited for his arrival, stood up and relieved herself by her desk. Later, she and a friend plotted revenge on an unpopular teacher by setting him afire as he drowsed. Despite this, her father wanted Lina to become a lawyer and put up fierce resistance when she expressed wishes to take lessons in acting and directing. She graduated from drama school in Rome in 1951 and found work in all sorts of theatrical pursuits...
...leaders are sincere in promoting liberty, such ideas will inevitably "create in workers and militants a new pattern of thought" favorable to democracy. Soares also thinks that keeping Communists in the Portuguese government has usefully served both to split the party and to make it share responsibility for the unpopular austerity measures there...
...coalition depended on Socialist votes in Parliament to give it a majority. As inflation soared and unemployment deepened in Italy-currently more than 1.2 million workers, or about 7% of the labor force-the Socialists found themselves accused of siding with the centrist parties in favor of unpopular deflationary policies. Meanwhile, Italy's Communists, with 179 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, could take comfortable refuge in their role as the leaders of the parliamentary opposition...
...test?and he passed with generally high marks. With New York City on the brink and unable to govern itself, he reluctantly took charge and assembled a group of businessmen, financiers and public officials to overhaul the city's spending practices and devise a rescue plan. For all the unpopular actions he was forced to take?cutting spending, raising taxes?he won respect by making hard choices with an even temper. But his record was somewhat blemished at year's end when he abruptly fired Maurice Nadjari, the special prosecutor appointed to ferret out corruption in the criminal justice system...
...bloodless "pocket rebellion" by the air force began during the week be fore Christmas, when Brigadier General Héctor Luis Fautario, the air force commander, arrived at one of Buenos Aires' airports to fly to Córdoba. Fautario, an unpopular general unswervingly loyal to President Perón, was detained by high-ranking fellow officers, who thereupon declared a rebellion. Military leaders, apparently sharing the general dislike of Fautario, quickly acceded to one of the rebels' demands and dismissed him. But Fautario's successor, Brigadier General Orlando Ramon Agosti, was unsympathetic to the rebels...