Word: unpopular
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...more palatable to both Congress and the public, but the task will not be easy. The House, in particular, is jealous of its fiscal prerogatives and may well hesitate to turn control of the spending of U.S. aid funds over to an international agency. Foreign aid is deeply unpopular with Americans. In a Louis Harris poll taken for LIFE last year, 69% nominated foreign aid as the prime candidate for federal spending cuts. Still a condition that allows the gap between rich and poor nations to widen steadily is basically unhealthy-and dangerous to U.S. interests...
Machiavellian Device. First undertaken as long ago as 3800 B.C. by the Babylonians and in 3000 B.C. by the Chinese, head counts have often proved unpopular because of their association in the public mind with taxation and conscription. When a national census was proposed to the British Parliament some 200 years ago, an enraged M.P. described the project as "totally subversive to the last remains of English liberty." Only in 1801 was the idea reluctantly accepted. The notion that the census is a Machiavellian device designed to enhance the power of the government is still strong; Machiavelli did, in fact...
...problem, but maintaining it proved more difficult. Police duty is traditionally defined as crime prevention and law enforcement-functions that take only 10% to 20% of a policeman's time. Among his many other duties-directing traffic, recovering stray pets and children, maintaining order-none is more thoroughly unpopular than intervening in personal quarrels...
...million-a $23 investment for each of the 10 million residents on the U.S. side of the Lake Erie basin. The $700 million annual price tag for industrial and power-plant pollution would add a mere 200 to 300 to most consumers' monthly electric bills. However unpopular such extra tariffs might be, the price is modest if it will buy the fresh air and clean water that is fast becoming only a memory...
Party Spoiler. A stubborn, honest and puritanically forthright man, Martin liked to explain that the Reserve Board's unpopular actions arose out of its necessary role of "leaning against the wind." He said: "I'm the fellow who takes away the punch bowl just when the party is getting good." (Martin is a teetotaler.) Above all, he defended the integrity of the U.S. dollar at home and abroad, though he and the board lacked the power to do the job effectively alone. Despite today's inflation, he succeeded well enough so that the dollar has lost less...