Word: unpopular
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Liberal Boss Bourassa, who served as Quebec's Premier between 1970 and 1976, did not benefit from his party's prosperity: he was defeated in his home district. A colorless personality, Bourassa was frequently referred to in the Canadian press as "the most unpopular man in Quebec" because of the general perception that his previous administration was incompetent. Having thus lost his own seat in the provincial legislature, the Premier-elect will have to run his victorious party from the public gallery until a Liberal agrees to give up a "safe" seat that he can win in a by-election...
Administrators have opposed total divestment of stock in companies operating in unpopular nations because of the political stance and the economic loss such a move requires. But they now face two separate groups of students and faculty who are urging Harvard to use its $2.5 billion endowment to take a moral stand in two countries...
...oppose the Sandinistas from within the country. The government fears that all these domestic opponents might band together with the contras in one anti-Sandinista front. That possibility is dismissed by opposition leaders, though in recent months many groups have been emboldened by Nicaragua's dire economic problems, an unpopular military draft and the Sandinistas' drift toward an increasingly authoritarian rule. "Things were coming to a head," says a well-placed Sandinista. "This is a warning shot to the internal opposition. We are not going to be a self-destructive revolution...
Westmoreland said Vietnam veterans, who were forced to stage their own homecoming and privately raise funds for their memorial, have been wrongly represented as unwilling to fight the unpopular...
...streak of anthropological stereotyping in them. Lots of nicknames are ethnic groups that one supposes, are supposed to be especially uncouth: the Fighting Irish (Notre Dame), the Fighting Scots (Wooster), the Vandals (Idaho), the Tartars (Wayne State) the Wasps (Emory & Henry) and, of course, the Indians, an increasingly unpopular nickname...