Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation worsens, Portugal seems unable to control events. Lisbon sent 2,000 reinforcements last month to its 24,000-man force in Angola, but has little desire to risk more lives in an unpopular war. Meanwhile, Portugal is regularly attacked by all sides...
...prime political battle in Washington to which Ford returns is the stalemate between White House and Congress over energy. Each party knows that whatever is done to reduce energy consumption will be highly unpopular, and each is maneuvering to force the other to take the heat. The House last week rejected a Ford plan to lift price controls on domestic oil gradually over 39 months. Congress voted instead to extend controls for six months-a bill that Ford, in turn, has vowed to veto. If he does and is sustained, the controls will expire on Aug. 31 and gas prices...
...international opprobrium that followed their 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, the major foreign policy crisis of Brezhnev's tenure. It is not often today that Moscow's diplomats have thrown in their faces the challenge, "What about Czechoslovakia?" Somehow, the long, vain American attempt to prop up an unpopular government in Saigon made much of the world forget the swift Soviet crushing of a popular government in Prague. One by one in the Brezhnev years, Soviet-aided North Viet Nam, East Germany and Cuba have gained international acceptance. True, Moscow was a loser in Chile, but the Kremlin...
...Unpopular Idea. Painful money issues also absorbed New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne who has labored for months to get the state legislature to approve a state income tax that he says is necessary to finance public education. The income tax is a disastrously unpopular idea in New Jersey. The recession has hit the state especially hard-unemployment is 13%. State revenues have fallen off, and Byrne's projected budget for this year contained a deficit estimated at $384 million...
...economic miracle had run out of steam. Soaring consumer prices led to bloated wage demands and a rash of strikes. Public services were so badly administered that they were cynically called "public disservices." Unemployment rose to 5.7%, a high figure for Italy. Austerity policies at home (including unpopular higher taxes) brought about a dramatic improvement...