Word: unpopular
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...proposed delay in pay raises for federal white collar employees scheduled for Jan. 1. Under federal law, a vote against the measure by either house would frustrate Nixon's hope of reducing the current fiscal budget by $1.3 billion. Because the delay in salary raises is politically unpopular, the job of ramming it through Congress, says House G.O.P. Leader Jerry Ford, "is going to be tough...
...someone who is prosecuted or jailed-not for crimes in the ordinary sense of the word, but for harboring or expressing opinions antagonistic to an established order of government. There is no question that the U.S. has a long and frequently dishonorable history of persecuting its citizens who hold unpopular opinions. The record reaches back past the Joseph McCarthy era to Sacco and Vanzetti, the Palmer raids, the Wobblies, and the Haymarket trial of 1887. There is also the ambiguous case of the Utah Mormons, who were persecuted in the late 19th century for the "crime" of practicing polygamy, then...
...change? Brown suggests that "society no longer rewards people for sexual individuality." Being male, he says, can mean being assassinated, as it meant for such strong male figures as John and Robert Kennedy. Or it can lead to death in the unpopular war in Viet Nam. Other anti-male influences, says Brown, are the belittling of fathers and husbands on TV, the blurring of sex distinctions in family life, and "a widespread cynicism about romantic love...
...sell products in Japan. In the tough bargaining that lies ahead, there is equal opportunity for the U.S. to persuade the Europeans to eliminate some of their stiff trade restrictions by offering in return to remove some of its own. Among the candidates for repeal that are most unpopular with trading partners of the U.S. are the so-called "Ship America" act and the many similar expressions of the "Buy American" mentality...
...their legal obligations. Unfortunately, the President's statement almost certainly will have the opposite effect." One embittered HEW staffer conceded that the school officials "are more confused now," adding, "they feel the rug has been pulled from under them." Busing, as the President well knows, is widely unpopular both North and South; yet some communities are beginning to get used to it. Besides, critics feel that Nixon's stand will damage the cause of integration quite apart from the busing question. Complained James R. Johnson, a black Jackson, Miss., school board member: "People here were finally psyched...