Word: unpopular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Because flight delays are up 73% this year, air carriers have said they would be willing to discuss spreading out their flight schedules, which overload airports at peak periods. But no carrier wants to be first to shift flights to unpopular times. So preparations for industry-wide talks on scheduling, which require a Government exemption from antitrust prosecution, have proceeded about as slowly as a search for lost baggage...
Under the French system, however, the political heat of unpopular decisions falls largely on the Premier; hence Fabius remained the golden boy of the Socialist team. Although political analysts knew that Mauroy's days were numbered, most assumed that he would remain in place through the fall to act as a lightning rod for attacks on the tightfisted 1985 budget. But the left's dismal showing in the European elections forced Mitterrand to act. A fortnight ago, he withdrew his controversial legislation to bring the country's private schools under greater state control and announced that...
...officials groped for a plan that would ease congestion at peak periods. Observes TWA Vice President Jerry Cosley: "Our scheduling is realistic in economic terms, but unrealistic in terms of the available infrastructure." Airline executives warned that carriers will not voluntarily risk losing passengers by scheduling more flights at unpopular times. Still, in response to FAA requests, the panel recommended that the airlines seek to spread out their peak-hour schedules. Also proposed were changes in airborne routings that could permit more traffic, and an increase in the number of controllers...
...Soviet line has been under fire by some French comrades since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Moscow's crackdown on Poland. The party was further handicapped by its ambivalent role as both a junior partner in the Mitterrand Cabinet and a critic of the government's unpopular economic austerity measures. Said a government official last week: "The Communists' best bet might be to leave the government now. Maybe a round of hard-nosed opposition would help them pull themselves together." In the longer run, Mitterrand may have to change the electoral strategy that brought...
Fund spokesmen insist that their unpopular conditions are necessary to restore economic health and replenish the IMF's revolving pool of resources. "The fund does not impose any measures," says an official in Washington. "Reality does. Ideally, a country forms its own policy and comes to consensus itself on what needs to be done, and then the fund supports that. Many of the success cases are those in which that has happened." There have indeed been successes over the years. Two notable case histories...