Word: unpopular
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Third Position. During his first two terms, Peron stripped the political power of the hated latifundistas, the landowning oligarchy that had dominated Argentine politics. He moved against unpopular foreign business interests by having the state buy the British-owned railways and ITT-owned telephone system. In foreign affairs he was the first postwar advocate of nonalignment, urging a "third position" as an alternative to joining the blocs led either by the U.S. or the Soviet Union. He conducted a vociferous anti-U.S. campaign, alleging that there was a "gigantic North American plot" to seize Cuban sugar, Bolivian tin, Chilean...
James Fred Hofheinz, 36, won only a paper-thin victory last January to become mayor of Houston, America's sixth largest city (pop. 1,233,000), but that has not prevented him from making some unpopular decisions. A Ph.D. in economics and son of Astrodome King Roy ("Judge") Hofheinz, he has raised property taxes 81/2% and water
...could go further, into the works of Arnold Toynbee, unpopular today with professional historians, but in fact a highly perceptive social and political critic, as well as the author of a powerful claim that religious faith provides the chief cultural foundation for civilization. Throughout the horrible years of the still-continuing Indochina War, Toynbee's warning cry for peace has been heard alongside those of the Berrigans and the Quakers and the various experts on Communism who could see that the most damaging and unwelcome intrusion in Southeast Asia was that of Western colonialism. If one looks for the origins...
...thing, Christian Democratic factions, which have been stung by the Sardinian elections, are engaged in unsettling feuds among themselves. If the bickering goes too far, it could bring down Rumor's coalition. Beyond that, Rumor and his reconstituted government still have to face popular reaction to an unpopular list of stiff new taxes...
...Simpson. For his brother King George VI, Gloucester undertook a spate of ceremonial chores and overseas good-will missions; he also indulged his passion for riding, fox hunting and polo. After serving as a high-ranking liaison officer in World War II, he spent a few years as an unpopular Governor General of Australia. Following the coronation of his niece Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, he continued to make the rounds as official emissary of the House of Windsor...