Word: unpopular
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Whatever the outcome of the election, the future course of Greece's economy is not encouraging. If Rallis and his New Democracy party are returned to power, the government will have to take unpopular measures to reduce inflation. Moreover, many sectors of the economy suffer from long years of neglect and unrealistic pricing. The phone service, for example, is primitive because politically popular low prices (1.6? for a local call) have made it impossible to raise money to modernize telecommunications facilities. But if Papandreou and PASOK become the country's new rulers and start a massive program...
...cuts in federal aid will force states to do at least one of two politically unpopular things: curtail services or raise taxes. In a closed-door session, according to Arkansas' Frank White, seven out of 20 Governors confessed they had either just passed tax increases or intend to do so soon. Some states will suffer more than others. North Dakota, with its oil and coal revenues, will do just fine without the federal dollars. Boasts Governor Allen Olson: "We want to prove we can live without them." But in the Northeast and industrial Midwest, the new federalism is "cruel...
...rather serve as pastor to a far-flung flock than face the daily grind of church business. Vatican officials wonder what he will do if he is no longer able to carry on those winning, globetrotting ways that have helped him dramatize to the world a conservative and sometimes unpopular vision of the church. Because of his long convalescence, the Pope has already had to cancel scheduled trips to Switzerland, France and Spain...
DIED. Emile Zola Berman, 78, New York trial lawyer and attorney for countless underdog clients and unpopular causes, who was best known for helping to defend Sirhan Sirhan, the killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy; in New York City. Berman first came to national attention in 1956, when he defended a Marine sergeant who was court-martialed for the drowning of six young recruits during a disciplinary march through a tidal creek at Parris Island, S.C. While representing Sirhan, who was convicted of first-degree murder in 1969, Berman explained: "I'm not defending his crime, only his rights...
...begun criticizing the unyielding tactics of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. At the same time, FitzGerald has reversed a pledge to give priority to Ireland's ailing economy. He called a settlement in Northern Ireland his No. 1 goal. Said he: "Whatever action is necessary, no matter how unpopular, it will be taken...