Word: unpopular
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Meanwhile, the Tehran government has continued to throw tens of thousands of ill-trained but fanatically loyal Islamic Guards and volunteers against the beleaguered Iraqi forces. Evidently helpless to reverse the course of an unpopular war, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has indicated his readiness to negotiate withdrawal of his troops from the 800 sq. mi. of Iranian territory still occupied by his troops. Nonetheless, Saddam is clearly not prepared to accept terms so humiliating that they would precipitate his fall from power...
Last year's budget was rated the most unpopular in 30 years, so Howe had only to be fairly moderate and evenhanded to come out ahead. In fact, his modest proposal for a $2.35 billion expansion of the economy managed to win approval from business leaders and even backbench conservatives who have been critical of Thatcher's harsh economic policies. "This will be a budget for industry, and so a budget for jobs," Howe declared in his address to the Commons. "But it will be a budget for people as well...
...advisors for a number of partially valid reasons. However, the principle it set out to protect--that any government should insure that majority benefits do not come at the expense of minority interests--was, and still is, valid It was the mechanics of the solution which were unworkable and unpopular...
Partially because of this unpopular provision, but more because the draft constitution written by the committee needed broader review and approval, a more widely representative constitutional convention gathered in October to produce a final constitution which would be given to the student body for approval This convention, of which I was the chair, was composed of members elected from each House and the Freshman Yard, and six members of the defunct constitution committee to lend "expert" advice...
...number of important and difficult decisions will be made by the Faculty and administration of Harvard in the next few years, without the Council, these decisions will be made without student input How to solve the financial aid crunch, and the House demographic disparities, what to do with the unpopular calendar, what course requirements should be, whether an additional year of foreign language requirement will be added, what tuition will be all those are pending questions for the Faculty and administration Regardless of how students feel on the issues, it is obvious, that students should at least be able...