Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from a man who at times has been perceived as taciturn, even dour. No one, however, questions Mazowiecki's integrity or the depth of his commitment to Solidarity. Perhaps as important, says an old friend, Adam Bromke, "he is a man who has the courage to say what is unpopular." Born in the central Polish town of Plock, Mazowiecki (pronounced Mah-zoh-vyet-skee), 62, is a devout Roman Catholic with strong ties to church activists who oppose Communist ideology. A close adviser to Lech Walesa, Mazowiecki helped form the union in 1980 and was jailed for a year after...
Sununu puckishly allows, "I have been known to ask provocative questions." His bad-cop act has the President's support, but Sununu has drawn fire from Congress and has left some staffers afraid to voice unpopular advice in his presence. Many consult more easily with Sununu's own good cop, deputy to chief of staff Andrew Card. Colleagues were relieved when Card decided to stay at the White House rather than run for Governor of Massachusetts...
...J.S.P.'s first major test will be to produce, as promised, an alternative plan to the unpopular consumption tax. Last week the Socialists had little problem persuading the other opposition parties to introduce a bill in the upper house to kill the tax. But the parties were unable to agree on an alternative source of revenue for the government, which needs the money for funding welfare programs, especially the soaring costs of providing care for Japan's aging population...
...past decades, the only workable answer remains renewed governmental pressure on behalf of a desegregated America, as politically unpopular as it may be. The implicit message of A Common Destiny is that white America, left to its own devices, will never complete the unfinished task of creating racial equality. That will take leadership, and a dose of compulsion, from...
...most-quoted expert on constitutional law, who would better understand why protecting flag-burning is so essential to basic civil liberties? And as a heralded liberal (whom many say will have his own seat on the Court someday), who could better weather the political storm and take the unpopular but moral stand...