Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apart from meeting the Soviet challenge in Europe and elsewhere, Schlesinger must contend with the mo rale problems left over from Viet Nam, the nation's longest and most unpopular war. Some top-ranking officers are still bitter that the politicians interfered with their conduct of the war. Their resentment contributes to a crisis of the military spirit that infects all ranks and may well be more difficult to handle than the manifold problems of race, drugs and discipline...
...work overtime last November, the stakes in the government-labor standoff have gradually risen on both sides. For Heath, determined to preserve his anti-inflationary wage guidelines against the miners' demands for what the government claims is a 30% pay boost, it has meant a series of unpopular emergency measures, including a compulsory three-day work week, power cuts, rising unemployment and an economic slowdown. For the miners it has meant an unhappy choice between giving in to the government or digging in for a long, crippling siege that will bring irreparable wage losses and national chaos...
...image had been tarnished in recent years. The campaign of bombings, kidnapings, and assassination attempts that his revived underground organization, EOKA-B, conducted against the government of Archbishop Makarios had become increasingly unpopular among the island's inhabitants. Most Cypriot Greeks, while holding to enosis as a political ideal, had long recognized the impossibility of forcing the island's Turkish minority (20%) into accepting union with Greece. Even the government in Athens had condemned Grivas' terrorist campaign. And in Cyprus, the general's repute had sunk so low that the House of Representatives, just before...
...best in the best of times, and in this election year most Congressmen shrink from such a mandate like the plague. It heaps too much responsibility on their shoulders, forces them to step out ahead of the people and commit themselves to a position that could later prove disastrously unpopular. What they would like to do is wait until public opinion crystallizes and they have unequivocal marching orders. The production of fresh evidence in the months ahead before the vote could provide those orders. In the meantime, no one wants to act precipitately on impeachment. Polls of House members show...
...efforts in this study are an unpopular cuase, but we must be involved in many unpopular causes. We must deal with violence in the prisons if we are to make progress in prison reform. We cannot greet every effort to deal directly with violent behavior with emotional attacks. We cannot be against all efforts to change things in the prison system. We are advocating change, change which recognizes and deals with these serious problems in the current system of correction. William J. Curran...