Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admissions question that many undergraduates have long opposed--a gradual increase in the overall size of the college to bring in more women. The problems of building a new undergraduate house and further straining the educational resources available to students make suggestions to increase the size of the college unpopular with those who will suffer by them. In addition, the gradual increase in women here and the adherence to decreasing ratios over the years that this implies is not a satisfactory solution for many undergraduates. Although these are not necessarily the answers the Strauch Committee will recommend, there...
William A. Klopman, 52, was not the betting favorite to become president of Burling ton Industries; his abrasive personality had made him unpopular with some other executives of the world's largest textile company (annual sales: $2 billion). Nonetheless, Klopman, then head of the apparel-fabrics division, was chosen last April over three other executive vice presidents, largely because he had been running a segment of Burlington that was generating a hearty share of the company's earnings. Indeed, Klopman, a tall, lantern-jawed New Yorker who had helped his father run a family company that Burlington bought...
...more recent but somewhat similar contradiction--this time within one group of people--helped keep the Graduate Student and Teaching Fellows Union from successfully striking in 1972 and 1973. The union sprang up when the University imposed an unpopular new financial aid plan without talking to graduate students first. But most of the Union's organizers viewed the financial aid plan as a logical more from a university they thought was more concerned with churning out staffers for American capitalism than with students or even research. So they jumped at the chance to unionize, whereas most other graduate students...
...glad to have this Nixon business behind us. But bear in mind that no amount of mood can change problems, particularly economic problems. It may be that Gerald Ford will have such an enormous reserve of popular confidence upon which to draw that he can do things unpopular and unbearable if done by anyone else. After all, what people want at the moment is good, straightforward, simple, believable government. They think they are going to get it, and they are happy about...
...expect to be welcomed in Virginia? Because the colony was heavily populated by Highlanders, many of whom had fought under him at Culloden. An additional force of Highlanders was captured by the French at Quebec, paroled, and then marched South to vex their former British masters. The British were unpopular in Virginia anyway, since they taxed whisky stills and kept recruiting farm boys to fight the French in howling wilderness...