Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seat state sports facility to be named the Brendan Byrne Arena, or on the popularity in Virginia of the Moral Majority's the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who, to the G.O.P.'s consternation, endorsed the party ticket weeks after a poll showed he was perhaps the most unpopular public figure in the state...
Your Essay correctly points to the New Right's attempts to force its narrow views upon the nation. The proposed legislation to limit federal court jurisdiction over broadly defined states' rights issues will be a mistake. These efforts to legislate around supposedly unpopular Supreme Court decisions only intensify my disdain for the New Right...
...weapons buy security? For many Third World nations, arms may well deter external aggression, but even the best-equipped troops of an unpopular regime are unlikely to hold off forever a domestic revolution. Witness Iran or Nicaragua. Thomas Barger, a former president of Aramco Oil and a director of Northrop, points out the evident danger: "When you get a lot of playthings, how long is it before you want to try them...
THIS ABIDING FAITH in the power of reason was the guiding principle of McGovern's political career--as such, it was both his greatest virtue and the source of his ultimate failure. On the one hand, it gave him the determination to speak his mind, to take principled but unpopular positions on civil rights, on political reform, and on Vietnam. And his faith gave him the confidence to believe in the underlying sincerity of his political opponents: that is why he could be friends with Barry Goldwater, and why he thinks it is possible to out-argue the New Right...
That Sadat was an astute political manipulator is equally beyond doubt. He had an uncanny sense for judging what his people wanted and then delivering it. Still, he set standards and tried to live up to them, no matter how unpopular his actions proved'to be. While the peace initiative was well received in Egypt, it earned Sadat the wrath of the rest of the Arab world. More recently, Sadat struck harshly at internal discord, detaining 1600 opponents to his regime, mostly Moslem militants. That repressive measure is believed to have directly instigated his assassination...