Word: unpopular
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While the war is equally unpopular in Iraq, which has suffered more than 100,000 killed, wounded or captured in the past 26 months, the efficiency of President Saddam Hussein's secret police is such that little dissent is heard. Since Saddam became President in 1979, he has maintained his popularity by rapidly improving housing, roads, medical care, and other amenities. These have largely been paid for by Iraq's oil revenues, which reached $21.2 billion in 1979. But Iran's naval dominance in the Persian Gulf and the decision by Syria, which supports Iran, to close...
...subtle factors at work. Liberal Jesuit Sociologist John Coleman suggests that the bishops almost instinctively grasped the arms race as a moral issue because they needed to restore their "credibility" with the laity, which had eroded because the hierarchy had no choice but to support Pope Paul's unpopular (and widely ignored) ban on birth control...
Although Bernardin has conscientiously tried to avoid the inevitable comparisons with his unpopular predecessor, the late John Cardinal Cody, Chicago's Catholics seem to delight in the obvious differences. A balding man with blue eyes that beam benevolently through thick glasses, the new archbishop may seem to be an unlikely object for a personality cult, but he is a folk hero compared with Cody. As one woman who pushed forward to shake his hand during a recent visit to a parish on the predominantly black West Side explained, "That man can feel. There is a lot of healing that...
...those who want to oust him. All reason enough for the Reagan Administration to have put a high priority on maintaining at 23 the G.O.P.'s share of governorships. Another factor last week that made the gubernatorial races a bit more important to the President: his already unpopular New Federalism proposal to shift welfare burdens to the states depends on the Governors' cooperation...
...home-state water projects, Carter, it would appear, has yet to learn a fundamental political lesson: dealing with Congress is the art of bargaining. To a legislator hell-bent on re-election, a federal grant to a local industry means a lot more than a handwritten card from an unpopular president on a sensitive issue. This is a harsh realization Carter simply can't understand...