Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, the basis for Simon's current appeal is the very thing that could % prove his undoing: his frequent claims that "more than any other candidate I have demonstrated that I am willing to do what's unpopular." His sartorial and ideological independence, along with his fealty to the old-time Democratic religion, can do little more than grant him his 15 minutes of celebrity. To become President, he must make sure that these go-it-alone traits do not begin to seem like studied eccentricity, wearisome piety and philosophical quaintness...
What else would you call a policy that interferes with the right of landlords to determine their rents for no socially justifiable reason? Plain and simple using rent control to aid the wealthy at the expense of property owners unfairly scapegoat the unpopular landlord of American myth...
...South Boston Community Development Corporation (SBCDC), a non-profit housing group, is using the mayor's unpopular housing proposal to encourge his home base constituency to vote for Tierney, who is from that area...
...College officials say that it is unlikelythat major changes will be instituted any timesoon. Both the house masters and students widelydisagree whether random assignment should be used,and when the College tried such a system in theearly 1960s, it proved to be very unpopular...
...thousands of new Harvard employees start searching through dust-ridden file cabinets for birth certificates and passports to prove their citizenship, the form, known as the I-9, seems destined to become as renowned, and as unpopular...