Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gurion was mourned all over Israel. He was the realist and visionary who had dreamed of and worked for a Jewish state through half a century of Turkish, British and international rule in Palestine. He had suggested the name for the new country. He had carried out hard or unpopular decisions in the state's early days and inevitably left on Israel the strength of his own personality...
...those in league with you succeed in forcing the resignation of the President, you will establish a precedent that will plague this republic for 100 years. No President will be safe from the anger of the mob whenever he performs an unpopular...
...Park Chung Hee has done his best to disprove that adage -primarily by trying to suppress all political opposition. The press has been gagged, the National Assembly turned into a rubber-stamp parliament, and political rallies have been banned (except those approved by the government). Despite these and other unpopular measures-including the enlarging of South Korea's feared secret police, which is called the CIA - opposition persists...
Howell barnstormed the state in a van truck called the "Howell Cannon-ball," promising to repeal an unpopular sales tax on food and nonprescription drugs. It had been enacted during Godwin's first term as Governor (1966-70). By September, Howell had a ten-point lead in the polls. That galvanized Godwin's lackluster early efforts. He started vigorously attacking Howell for being pro busing, in favor of gun controls and against the state's right-to-work law. When Howell tried to explain his previous stands on those issues-for example, he denied that he favored...
...public that the state is the cause of an imminent increase in subway fares. The subway crisis provides Beame with a popular position on a vital issue which he can pursue at no cost to himself: begging money from the Governor for the subways costs the city no unpopular tax increases...