Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surprisingly, 250 students came forward. The stories of overcrowding in the Houses had convinced many that the security of spacious rooms in the Yard would be assignment to an unpopular House and an over-crowded room...
...company taxes $16 billion over the next six years by phasing out the depletion allowance and tightening taxes on foreign profits. President Nixon has threatened to veto the price rollback and excess-profits tax if he considers them unduly punitive. But siding with the oil industry is becoming increasingly unpopular for any politician...
...CAST of Winthrop House Dramatic Society's production of The Plain Dealer asks its audience to "Laugh at fools aloud, before their mistresses." Yet unlike the popular (or unpopular) image of Restoration comedy, this play is more than just laughter, fools and mistresses...
...something of both the fascination and the mustiness of the history in it. It is a one-man show, a long reminiscence over Darrow's career. Fonda ranges across Darrow's life-his scant formal learning (one year of law school), his increasing involvement in dangerously unpopular cases, like that of the Wobbly Big Bill Haywood, and, of course, the Scopes trial...
Unfortunately, no one has yet discovered a penicillin for the infection of world inflation?a swift miracle cure. But there are practical steps that could be taken to slow price rises. They are unpopular and slow-acting, but nonetheless essential...