Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Read my lips, Mr. President: sold right (and that's your job), this would not be an unpopular program...
...more important than intelligence" in keeping pace with the travel and social demands of his post. At the Office of Management and Budget, the challenge is "not to cave" in to demands for money. Says a former OMB associate director: "A lot of people are not willing to be unpopular...
...divide the house, nor is it to somehow "get" those who voted originally to purchase the television. Rather, it is an attempt to make Currier's house committee constitution more fair. The house should always know what issues will be discussed in house committee meetings, and if an extremely unpopular measure is passed, the members of the house should have some recourse. Finally, funds should not be given to private groups or suites that are not open to all residents of the house unless an overwhelming majority of the house is in favor of doing so. Julie Novkov...
...Jehovah's Witnesses who choose not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, Nazis who wanted to march in Skokie, Ill., and a fair trial for Oliver North. Says William Schneider, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute: "Being linked to the A.C.L.U. is a problem because it takes up unpopular causes. Presidential candidates prefer popular causes...
Most voters are happy to salute the flag, aren't in prison, aren't members of the unpopular minorities the A.C.L.U. looks out for, aren't the social losers for whom Bush's fantasy liberals are plotting expensive new Government programs. You can always evoke the emotions of normal people against the great "other" and call it patriotism. Politicians in many countries have used this technique successfully. But American patriotism is supposed to be inclusive and tolerant, not exclusive and invidious...