Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout Portugal's stormy succession of 16 governments in the dozen years since it became a democracy, he was his country's best-known political figure. He served as Prime Minister in three governments, leading the last through a grueling and unpopular period of economic austerity. This past October Mario Soares, 61, seemed washed up. His Socialist Party had just been defeated in parliamentary elections. When he announced his candidacy for President, polls showed his popular support at a rock-bottom 8%. Unfazed, Soares persisted...
...also said defense contractors should be required to use production methods that permit quick transitions to non-military production, to prevent defense cuts from causing the widespread layoffs that he said make them unpopular in Congress...
Despite the time change, the B-29 professors decided to keep the original date, May 15. The course's new meeting time would have meant a final on May 23, the second-to-last day of exams. The prospect of such a late final, Deacon said, was very unpopular with students...
...surprised by this, for human history has shown that far from recoiling from abrogating standards of decency, the majority has eagerly leapt at any chance to use disease, was or natural calamity to turn its fury on the unpopular minority. Jews in Europe were killed during the plague. Japanese-Americans were sent off to internment camps in World War II, while the politically powerful Italian- and German-American remained free...
...weeks earlier, the President's response to the terrorist seizure of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro had been criticized as indecisive, even duplicitous, and had strained Egypt's relations with the U.S. After the hijacking crisis in Malta, Mubarak is considered less likely than ever to risk the unpopular economic reforms that the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund have been urging upon him for the past year. The IMF wants Egypt to reduce its projected budget deficit of $1.3 billion for this year by drastically cutting subsidies on food and other consumer goods. To do so could lead...