Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steelers, an unpopular pick against the peaking Pats. They're only getting 2.5, but that won't matter. They need a big road win; young Kordell and The Bus will smell the chance to define their season. The Eagles, for reasons known only to Ricky Watters (and he ain't talking), will beat the Falcons in Atlanta. And Daddy likes another limb pick: the PANTHERS, at home in the Mobile-Phone-Dome, will eke out at least a cover against Green Bay, who has too many ailing troops not to sag a little this week. Oh. And KC is simply...
...help, then by the other Pacific Rim nations. For different reasons, both lenders and receivers wanted a middleman to give them cover. For all the embarrassment that attaches to it, a bid to the IMF allows recipient governments to claim that an outside force is compelling them to make unpopular but necessary reforms. Donor countries can also avoid taking the blame for the pain that IMF requirements impose...
...This is a progressive campus," Rawlins said. "Conservative views are unpopular, so they tend to be more subtly expressed...
...third step toward relevancy is called "The Recall Reform Bill." This bill is intended to expedite the "recall," or removal, of a council executive. So if the council president does something politically unpopular, he or she can be removed after a petition supported by 10 percent of the electorate and a subsequent two-thirds majority of voting undergraduates. This is still a high hurdle for removal from executive office, but if an issue so excites the populace that the removal of a council officer becomes expedient, we support the ability of the student body to remove said officer...
...commitment to noncommercial films, can't escape fiscal pressures. And it dawns on me that it's a lucky thing there's a market for the sort of films that get shown in a setting built around that kind a commitment. It's a lucky thing that the unpopular films the Archives show are as popular as they...