Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Babangida's ability to hold on to power depends on his success in turning around the Nigerian economy. Whatever his plans, he knows he must act quickly and | decisively. He has only to look at his own role as coup maker and coup breaker to know that in Nigeria unpopular or ineffective leaders do not last for long...
...scandal has seriously aggravated France's diplomatic problems in the South Pacific, where the French are unpopular because of both their colonial presence in New Caledonia and their nuclear-testing policy. New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, whose government earlier this month joined twelve other regional nations in urging a nuclear-free zone in the South Pacific, has called the French tests "deplorable." Lange has promised to sue the French government if its responsibility for the Rainbow Warrior bombing is proved...
...talk hasten to point out, the University solicits nominations for degrees from all members of the Harvard community. Yet Dershowitz and others maintain the resulting list is largely irrelevant when the committee sits down to pick about 10 recipients from all walks of life. Those critics cite past unpopular recipients as evidence of the arbitrary nature of the system--a favorite example is the Shah of Iran, who got a degree in 1968. The critics also charge that deserving minorities and Jews--like Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis--were denied degrees specifically because of their race or creed...
...some priests, have openly espoused women's ordination, birth control, an end to mandatory clerical celibacy, approval of remarriage after divorce, sharing Communion with Protestants and acceptance of homosexuality. John Paul has distressed many of the Dutch not only by opposing such views but by installing a series of unpopular conservative bishops to enforce his policies, rejecting candidates proposed by the Dutch clergy...
...pass any significant increase in military spending this year. The politics were simple: Senate Republicans figured they had to do something to cut the budget deficit before it did real damage to the already slowing U.S. economy. But the cuts in civilian spending that Reagan demanded were bitterly unpopular with many of their constituents. To mollify them, the Republicans felt they had to make the Pentagon share in the sacrifice. All those tales of military extravagance, of $400 hammers and $600 toilet seats, had taken a toll. A / feeling had grown too that after years of rapid increases in military...