Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Migranyan, the unsettling change in climate is partly due to Gorbachev's democratizing efforts. Those measures have permitted grass-roots resistance to unpopular reforms. "The Soviet Union," said Migranyan, "is acting like a democracy without really being one." Above all, said Migranyan, his country needed a model to make the transition from state-owned to free- market economy. "Nobody knows how to do it," he said, including Gorbachev, whose government lacks "conceptual ideas and clarity about what to do." Migranyan said the short-term remedy was either food or force. As long as there was sausage...
...Communist political groupings in Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia to national coalitions formed in Western Europe after World War II. "We are emerging from 40 years of war against the people. Changes have to be made -- economic, political and moral ones. These new governments soon will have to make unpopular decisions, so it's best to have governments credible to all parties...
...choice is clearly not the solution. Statistics prepared by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, indicated that the proposal might take the edge off of some stereotypes, but Whitla relied on data from last year's lottery in which first-year students selected "unpopular" houses as a safe second or third choice...
...proponents of maximum diversity and full randomization believe that the current system "breeds intolerance and fear and sometimes even loathing," then why don't they call for next fall's randomization of every Harvard student--not just first-years? Or what about randomized rooming groups? These bold and obviously unpopular proposals seem consistent with the editors' desire for a homogenized housing system...
...have some very, very difficult choices to make," Bulger said. "This is clearly an unpopular initiative...Those who support it do so in the honest belief that it is a necessary measure...