Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mishra, in fact, was easily the most unpopular man in the Indian government-not only because of the corruption charges, but also because he had successfully used strong-arm measures last year in breaking a national rail strike. At week's end, a crowd of government employees in New Delhi initially refused to express formal grief at the news of Mishra's death. Only after the main speaker, Jayaprakash Narayan himself, remonstrated with the group and declared that "no sane person can tolerate" such acts of terrorism did the audience reluctantly support the traditional resolution of condolence...
...Administrative Council that now rules the country gave promise of democratic reform. Today, after months of mismanagement and unrest, the council-known locally as the Dergue (meaning "shadow" in Amharic, Ethiopia's official language) because most of its members are unknown to the public-is at least as unpopular as the Emperor...
...that matter, consider Ford him self in the matter of pardoning Former President Richard Nixon. He knew it would be an unpopular act, and even when he found just how unpopular, he still defended it before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the right thing to do in his judgment for the best interests of the nation - something he would even do again. Whatever the merits of the pardon, in that case his perception of his leadership duty and his role as President was exactly right. As Woodrow Wilson put it: "A President whom [the country] trusts can not only lead...
...Food Services staff is understandably reluctant to consider such possibly unpopular policy changes as restricting portions and using more soybeans, fearing the wrath of their dissatisfied "customers." But this fear should not prevent anyone from experimenting. It may just turn out that people here are beginning to think of themselves less as customers and more as people living in a world that is threatened by the possibility of starvation on a massive scale. The point is that food is a social commodity that should be distributed according to need and not according to purchasing power...
...terms of lives, money, or morale. In addition, a spiralling inflation rate, presently 42 percent, a poor balance of payments deficit of roughly $3.5 billion, and dwindling foreign donations (due to a world recession) have plunged the country into an economic depression. And to increase discontent, sever and unpopular austerity measures have been imposed...