Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sponsors of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, whose intent Reagan tried to gut early on in his Administration. He helped to create the Leagal Services Corporation, whose job of providing legal aid to the poor Reagan tried to eliminate. And at a time when it was unpopular, the early 1970s, Mondale chaired a Senated committee that pushed for new aid for school desegregation, a goal the Reagan Administration has all but abandoned...
...never got the confrontation he patently desired. In 1977 Torrijos and President Carter signed a new agreement, abolishing the zone - but preserving certain American controls -at a Washington ceremony. Near the front row was Greene, long unpopular in Washington for his pro-Castro sympathies; the general had provided a Panamanian diplomatic passport...
When all the shouting was over, Congress would wind up doping little more than it absolutely could not avoid. In an era when monster deficits and the politically unpopular steps that might reduce them seem about equally intolerable to many legislators, Congress's budget-making process has broken down completely. As has become its deplorable habit, the legislature came to the end of a fiscal year with the great majority of appropriations bills-nine of 13 in this case-unpassed. Once again, Congress had to bundle money for defense expenditures, most social spending and even some routine housekeeping chores...
...before the 3,000 delegates arrived at Blackpool's Winter Gardens, the annual Labor Party conference in the Irish Sea resort was shaping up as a struggle between militant leftists and the party's centrists. On one side, determined to win more support for Britain's unpopular 30-week coal miners' strike, was Arthur Scargill, 46, the Marxist president of the National Union of Mine workers. On the other, with an eye on Labor's sagging ratings in the polls, was Party Leader Neil Kinnock...
When Kopp entered politics in 1970, Swiss women were still a year away from being granted the right to vote in nationwide elections. A member of the conservative Radical Democratic Party, Kopp has nonetheless backed environmentalist and women's causes that are unpopular with many of her party's leaders...