Word: unpopular
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Under Mitterrand, the number of jobless has continued to grow. After an ill-advised attempt to spur the economy through consumer spending, the French Socialists turned to unpopular wage and price controls to stem inflation. As controls were lifted last week, subway, railroad and airline workers promptly began striking for higher wages. In Greece, Papandreou's more moderate brand of socialism has fared better. In nationwide municipal elections late last month, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) won control over more than half of the nation's 276 cities and nearly 6,000 smaller communities. But the election also...
...strong. He has been effective at mining the discontent of the hard-hit farm and factory constituency. He has linked Michel, the President's point man in Congress, to Reaganomics and blamed him for not changing Reagan's mind on the Soviet pipeline sanctions, which are unpopular in an area where some pipeline equipment would have been made. But this mostly Republican district still seems inclined to heed the President's plea for patience and not add Michel's name to Peoria's list of 20,000 unemployed...
...imperial illusions and curb centralized executive power. During his brief, 7½-month tenure as Premier, he pledged to end France's Indochina war within one month (and did so), gave autonomy to Tunisia and persuaded France's National Assembly to approve West German rearmament. Often politically unpopular because of his abrasive righteousness, Mendès France earned numerous enemies (including Charles de Gaulle) and was sometimes ridiculed, notably for his ill-starred recommendation that the bibulous French switch from wine to milk. But said Disciple François Mitterrand at his 1981 inauguration as President...
Throughout, one theme keeps coming back--the idea that Lennon was constantly risking something by staunchly sticking with even the most unpopular and outlandish convictions. As Jann Wenner writes...
...bedrooms, Lennon repeatedly risked the scorn of the press and fans. As a househusband who stayed at home for five years to take care of his son, he invited the ridicule and contempt of those who wanted him to continue recording. And as a comeback artist who let his unpopular wife Yoko contribute half the songs to a new album, he braved the possibility of rejection...