Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration's senior officials, Stockman is clearly the boldest and the most ideological. He often uses sweeping, strident language, as when he called the federal budget an "automatic coast-to-coast soup line." He revels in taking unpopular positions and shows disdain for most economists: "They've been dead wrong, persistently." While he wants the Government to reduce most social welfare programs drastically, he would make even deeper cuts in subsidies for business interests and agriculture. Though Republicans generally blame most of the economy's present difficulties on Democratic folly, Stockman believes that one of the most...
When Grasso discovered that retiring Governor Thomas Meskill had left behind a $70 million deficit, she took a number of unpopular measures: proposing to increase state work hours from 35 to 40 hours a week, laying off 500 state workers, raising the state sales tax. She was no easier on herself, refusing a $7,000 salary increase, selling the state airplane and limousines and turning any fees for speaking engagements over to the state. Two years into her term, Connecticut showed a $34 million surplus...
...Politics needs a woman's point of view," says Gro Harlem Brundtland, 41, former Environment Minister of Norway. The Labor Party agreed. Last week it installed Brundtland as her country's first female-and youngest-Prime Minister, following the resignation of the increasingly unpopular Odvar Nordli, 53. A physician with a Harvard master's degree in public health, Brundtland thus became the third member of that highly exclusive club-women heads of government (along with Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi). Nicknamed "the green goddess" for her impassioned protection of the Norwegian woods, Brundtland favors backing NATO strongly...
...conversation at home, except when something about Anita Bryant came on the news. We all regarded Anita as somewhat off the wall, but not out of any deeply felt views on homosexuality. At school, the words "gay" and "fag" were used only as insults to students so awkward or unpopular that the term "wimp" would not do. Homosexuality was spotlighted only once: when the women's studies class invited a lesbian to speak and half the parents called up to complain...
...main beneficiary of Benn's triumph was Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. With the parliamentary opposition and the press preoccupied by Labor's battles, Thatcher's unpopular economic policies temporarily receded from public attention, despite news last week that unemployment had soared to a new 45-year record...