Word: unpopular
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Considered by fellow politicos and close observers to be one of England's most popular statesmen despite an affiliation with the increasingly unpopular Tory party, Lord Carrington was once considered a strong candidate for the job of Prime Minister. Although Carrington denied interest in the position, he enjoyed more widespread respect than the present P. M. Many also saw him as one of the two or three people that could tell Margaret Thatcher when it was time for her to step down...
...knew no crime or addiction. The lawns in front of those two-story white houses were as smooth as an Emerald City carpet, and Dad's morning newspaper always landed smartly on the front porch. When girls gossiped about "the pill," they were referring to an % unpopular guy at the far end of the study hall. If Go-Getting Teenager Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) got "in trouble" with a debutante or chorus girl, it wouldn't be that kind of trouble--just the yelp of puppy love. And it wouldn't end in jail or a shotgun marriage but with...
...obviously the reverse is not necessarily true: while repression can strengthen Communism, removing repression does not automatically weaken Communism or other totalitarian forces. The Kennedy Administration decided that the Diem regime in Viet Nam no longer deserved U.S. support, among other reasons because its oppressiveness made it unpopular and therefore ineffectual. But the governments we put in place after we eliminated Diem were not necessarily any better in the long run. The Carter Administration made a similar decision about Somoza in Nicaragua, and yet again the Sandinistas are hardly an improvement, as most Nicaraguans know only too well today...
...Obando. At a May Day Mass last week, the Cardinal used his homily to defend the right to strike, which was among the guarantees suspended in October. He warned sternly that "Marxism does not have the solution for the working class." In the past Obando has attacked Nicaragua's unpopular universal military draft and urged young men to enter seminaries as a way of avoiding it. He has urged the government to negotiate with the contra rebels and declined to condemn the Reagan Administration's effort to provide the guerrillas with $100 million in U.S. funding, a stand that prompted...
...identified as a House budget proposal (it was actually a month-old working paper outlining one option). Declaring that the proposal recommended no major revenue increases, Dole called it a "smoking gun" because it proved that House Democrats were secretly planning to blame the Republican-controlled Senate for unpopular tax hikes...