Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what could be a long climb. Between 1968 and 1973, the average U.S. price of nickel went from 940 per Ib. to $1.53, tin from $1.48 to $2.20 and copper from 420 to 590. In addition, the U.S., in part because of its wealth and power, is unpopular in some Third World nations. With demand for minerals strong, several countries conceivably could reduce exports to the U.S. and find eager buyers to take its place...
...this second, concluding volume of Bevan, Author Foot acknowledges that Nye was by conventional reckoning a failed man. The main reason he never made it from a dirt-floored cottage to No. 10 Downing Street was not his reckless invective but a stubborn insistence on such highly unpopular policies as Britain's retention of its own nuclear deterrent. "We should not," said Nye in one of his most famed declarations, "go naked into the conference chamber." Though he and Jennie Lee, his tough Scottish wife and fellow M.P., seldom lacked caviar or claret, Bevan railed eloquently against...
...perhaps the most versatile heavyweight who ever pulled on a pair of padded gloves, the passage into the dusk of his fighting career must be a particularly bitter one. Robbed of three productive years in his fighting prime for embracing unpopular political beliefs, Ali, since re-emerging into the harsh glare of center ring, is no longer the lightning quick and powerful fighter who was banished for prophetically asserting that as an American, he "had no quarrel with them Viet Cong." As penalty for this vision, which he could claim long before it came into vogue, Ali was stripped...
...human sexual conduct. Just because the courts, or even the vast majority of the public, finds such a view "patently offensive" is no argument to deny that view the protection of the first amendment. The first amendment was designed precisely to avoid that kind of tyrannical usurpation of unpopular minority views. The history of ideas is replete with examples of unpopular views which later proved to have value: the views of Jesus, Copernicus, Luther, Diderot, Darwin, Marx and Freud, to name just a few, met considerable resistance, not to mention censorship, at their inception. Whether or not there proves...
...possible, of course, that Heath may have politics as well as economics on his mind: he could be maneuvering to back the miners down by exaggerating their role in the crisis; at the same time he could be trying to boost his public support by avoiding unpopular measures like an across-the-board raise in income taxes. Thus if the miners fail to come to terms, Heath still has one last option: he could call new elections and seek a vote of confidence...