Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drawback is that passengers with free tickets can take seats away from paying customers. Most frequent flyers are business travelers who earn their mileage points going to such relatively unpopular destinations as Boise and Buffalo. When the time comes to redeem their bonuses, they go to Hawaii, Florida or the Caribbean. Some analysts estimate that up to 33% of the seats on some airlines' popular routes are taken by passengers who are flying free...
...Capitol Hill. In previous years, when Education Secretary William J. Bennett sought massive cuts in student financial aid, Congress would simply ignore his requests and gave the Reagan Administration no say. As Loye W. Miller, Bennett's press secretary, admitted, "when you have a budget that is so unpopular that even key Republicans ignore it, then you simply don't have influence and are not a player...
...ahead economically; they can't buy the house; they can't afford the education. It's more jobs, more work, less income, more debt." In any case, Gephardt does not have the luxury of tailoring his appeal to New England voters. Even though an oil-import fee is wildly unpopular in these frigid climes, Gephardt must hold his ground in a belated effort to demonstrate ideological consistency...
...hour attempt to keep a five-month-old Central American peace process alive, Ortega offered several striking concessions, among them promises to lift Nicaragua's state of emergency and to hold direct talks with the guerrillas. Last week he moved to honor those pledges, restoring civil liberties, disbanding an unpopular ad hoc court system and inviting the rebels for face-to-face negotiations. But the coincidental arrest in Nicaragua of five opposition leaders and hints that tough measures might follow approval of new contra aid strengthened suspicions about Ortega's motives. "All the Sandinistas care about now is stopping that...
...clearly tax increases pain Simon; early drafts of his economic white paper had just one line on taxes. Even now, he plans to make up for any budget shortfall in outmoded soak-the-rich fashion: raising income-tax rates for individuals earning more than $100,000 a year. As unpopular as the rich may be in some Democratic Party circles, there just are not that many of them: each 1% increase in tax rates under Simon's plan would bring in merely $2 billion in revenues...