Word: unpopular
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Jackson is close to Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, consults with him frequently, and is likely to recommend only minor cuts in the Pentagon's proposed $9 billion increase in defense spending next year, even though it is unpopular with liberals. He favors mutual arms reduction by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. He faulted the interim arms agreement because he thought it favored the Soviets. More recently he agreed with liberals that Ford's Vladivostok agreement set too high a limit on the two countries' strategic weapons...
...degree of intellectual freedom. The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessary also deprives others of the right to listen to those views...
...taught law briefly at Gonzaga University. Before running for Congress himself in 1964, he worked on the staff of "Scoop" Jackson's Senate Interior Committee. Although he backed military-spending projects like the ABM, Foley was chairman of the liberal Democratic Study Group. Unlike the bellow-voiced, unpopular Poage, Foley is quiet, almost diffident; he has a preference for Mozart and Bach...
...that the U.S. was in a recession. When he became president, however, he was forced to think about the matter a little more carefully, and he grudgingly came to admit the existence of economic difficulties. President Ford then proposed a tax increase as our panacea, but when that proved unpopular he decided to look for another scheme. Now Mr. Ford has pulled together a new package, in what The New York Times calls "a 179 degree turn in economic policy." Instead of a tax increase, he now suggests a tax rebate of $12.2 billion which, combined with a regressive fuel...
Ford refused to sign the bill after arguing that it would have hampered domestic coal production "when the nation can ill afford significant losses from this critical energy source." Though his veto was anticipated, it is sure to be unpopular. The strip-mining bill was supported by environmentalists, Ford's own Interior Department, the AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers, United Auto Workers and farm and ranch organizations. It was even backed by a few big coal companies that were anxious to have some law-any law-enacted to clear up the uncertainty that has clouded their future...