Word: unpopular
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...restrictions for his flight into Libya Thursday, the move may signal a wider crisis in Washington's use of sanctions: "Sanctions tend to work for a limited period, after which they inevitably begin to collapse," says Dowell. "Washington's long-term sanctions against various countries have been very unpopular around the world, and their value has often been questionable." But with U.S. standing in the region at a low ebb following the Iraq crisis and the collapse of the Mideast peace process, there may not be much Washington can do to keep gentleman callers off Muammar's porch...
...died in his beloved Arizona last week at 89. For the first dozen years of his career, from his arrival in Washington as the upset winner of a 1952 race for the Senate to his climactic run for the presidency in 1964, he was notorious for casting lonely and unpopular votes--against the 1963 Test Ban Treaty, for example, and against the Civil Rights Act a year later. For his offenses against progressive opinion, he was variously described as "dangerous," "psychotic," "Hitlerite," "fascistic" and a "rallying point for racists" whose election would lead to a "police state." Even...
Although no one could have known that this initiative would foreshadow McCarthyism, the Barnes Bill was unpopular among students, Faculty and administrators alike...
...husband's commitment to freedom of speech was unpopular in the late '60s, Gill says...
...Habibie doing? The new Indonesian president's cabinet appointments -- seen as the first test of Suharto's sucessor and his ability to survive -- drew a lukewarm response when they were unveiled here Friday morning. Out: Suharto golf buddy Mohammed "Bob" Hasan, as well as the former president's extremely unpopular daughter Tutut. Still in: Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, Economic Minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita. TIME Jakarta correspondent Terry McCarthy rates Habibie's cabinet a C-minus: "It's only halfway there," he says. "There's a lot of academics, and a few minor cronies. It wasn't brilliantly done." Habibie did craftily...