Word: unpopular
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Just as many of Reagan's policies are unpopular in Iowa, overall approval of the President's performance also scrapes bottom in the state. That accounts, at least partly, for the poor standing of Vice President George Bush among voters likely to attend Iowa's G.O.P. caucuses. The clear front runner nationally among Republican voters, Bush trails Bob Dole by 10 points in Iowa...
Gorbachev acknowledges that his antialcohol campaign is highly unpopular. He once told a group of writers that he was aware of "threats" as well as grumbling from the long lines of people queueing up to buy scarce and expensive vodka. One gag has a man at the end of one of the liquor-store lines announcing that he is so furious he is going over to the Kremlin to shoot Gorbachev. He returns in a few minutes, however, and resumes his place in the queue. "Well, did you do it?" asks a comrade. "You must be joking," the would...
Right-wing groups at Harvard have traditionally expressed themselves by inviting highly unpopular speakers in order to provoke political opponents. Leftwing groups, on the other hand, have traditionally expressed themselves by protesting. The University traditionally has walked a line, trying to defuse the effectiveness of both these methods by shutting down the speeches and ignoring the arguments of both sides...
Speculation on what else Gorbachev might have up his sleeve is running high in both Moscow and Washington. One possibility: Afghanistan, invaded in 1979 by Soviet forces that have been bogged down ever since in a guerrilla war that is highly unpopular in the U.S.S.R. This week, on the eve of the summit, the Soviet-installed regime in Kabul is due to announce a new constitution making Islam the state religion and giving opposition forces a nominal role in the government. Some diplomats think that at the summit Gorbachev may announce withdrawal of some of the 115,000 Soviet troops...
After the Duke Kent-Brown incident here last year, activists, under fire from the administration, and increasingly unpopular with students, realized that they were banging their heads against a wall. So they stopped...