Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the popular styles of the '20s, '30s and '40s have been recycled, why not some of the unpopular styles? Old Communists, for example. They really did make them better years ago. One of the best models was the brilliant, arrogant, vain, dogmatic, versatile Bolshevik, Lev Davidovich Bronstein. He called himself Trotsky, after a jailer at the czarist prison where he once served time. Trotsky was not without wit. When Nicholas II's troops came to break up a revolutionary meeting, the young radical ordered the commanding officer to sit down until recognized under Robert...
Bucket Brigade. One idea being weighed in Washington is that VAT revenues ultimately would go to states to help pay for public schooling costs, and thus lighten the load on home owners, who pay for education out of their heavy-and increasingly unpopular-property taxes. In sum, Nixon could promise during his election campaign to reduce property taxes and then make up for this loss by proposing VAT after the elections. The Administration calculates that in order to reduce or stabilize the residential property tax by eliminating that part of it devoted to schools, it must raise about $12 billion...
...London Sunday Express called her "the lady nobody loves," and the Sun declared: "She is the most unpopular woman in Britain." Edward Britten, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, has said that her policies are "producing chaos." To former Laborite Education Minister Edward Short, she is a "national disaster." In playgrounds, children taunt her for cutting off their free milk by chanting: "Mrs. Thatcher, milk snatcher...
...When the army seized power in 1964, Brazil was nearly broke and veering toward chaos after years of left-wing leadership. Overreacting, the generals used fear and torture to crush political opposition and curtail civil liberties. To cool the dangerously overheated economy, Economic Planning Minister Roberto Campos introduced an unpopular but necessary austerity program. In 1967 the government started pushing economic growth, and the generals brought in as Finance Minister Antonio Delfim Netto, a brilliant, bullying Sao Paulo State finance secretary and former economics professor. Delfim has been given a free hand in running the economy...
...Driesell had to resort to unpopular tactics to win big ballgames--he had his squad freeze the ball against playoff champion South Carolina last year to bring off a startling 31-30 upset at College Park--it was only to buy time for the 1971-72 season, when the Terrapins were going to fulfill the promise Driesell made shortly after he was hired--that Maryland would be the UCLA of the East...