Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closed mind of President Ford, a knee-jerk anti-considering, and his advisers. The Ford administration's position seems to be a reactive one not well thought-out or borne out by past experience. It involves urging huge amounts of military aid for a government that has been consistently unpopular corrupt and suppressive of the basic freedom of its citizens and that has been consistently unable to hold any power in times when it has not been propped up by millions of dollars from America. American military aid has always brought suppression and violence to the people of Vietnam...
Ruemelin knows that if there are no internship coordinators, there may not be anyone to lobby for internship program funds. But he still cannot get definite answers about programs' futures because. "It's a very unpopular thing for someone to say we won't do a program...
...Communist leaders are painfully aware of the possible consequences of the price increases. Of the five uprisings that have shaken Eastern Europe since 1953, three stemmed directly from unpopular economic measures. Once again, Eastern European workers will be asked to make sacrifices. The increased fuel costs are bound to retard the growth of Eastern Europe's fertilizer, petrochemical and synthetic textile industries, and limit supplies of some consumer goods. Those goods will have to be sold to the Soviet Union to raise rubles, but Moscow is insisting on terms of trade that are likely to anger Eastern Europeans. Though...
...featured about Al Romano of North Adams took an unpopular split decision from Brockton's barrage punching Gerry Anson. Both were bleeding from eyebrow cuts and slugging wildly at each other, and they got the only standing ovation of the night when their eight-rounder was over...
lance M. Liebman, assistant professor of Law at Harvard and a trustee of the Yale Corporation, said yesterday, "The trustees were of the opinion that even the most unpopular views should be heard at Yale...