Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straight into Lee's vigorous campaign to warn the world of what he sees as dire threats emanating from Beijing. He is convinced the leadership intends to control Hong Kong so tightly that all its current economic and political freedoms will disappear. While Tung was struggling to defend his unpopular proposals, Lee enjoyed a triumphant tour of the U.S., including a symbolically important chat with President Clinton. Lee's Democrats threatened to mount protest marches on hand-over night in deliberate violation of the proposed restrictions and tie up the courts in a skein of lawsuits if Tung refuses...
...wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does so fervently but loses the case. Matsch describes Finch as "the opponent of oppression, the paradigm of propriety, the dean of decent citizens and the core of his community." Those are the strict...
PARIS: France's highly unpopular Prime Minister Alain Juppe took the fall on Monday for President Jacques Chirac's humiliation in the first round of legislative elections. Loyally accepting the blame for two years of record unemployment, public spending cuts, wage freezes for state workers and general discontent with the government, Juppe said he will quit the premiership no matter what the outcome in next Sunday's runoff vote. It was Juppe who had persuaded Chirac to call for early elections, on the notion that their conservative coalition would fare better now than wait for next year's scheduled election...
General Wong's chicken and Bell-Ringing beef were especially unpopular, as students called for less ambitious dishes...
...merely working in a majority-white environment, and voicing opinions that are frequently unpopular or considered radical, although sometimes frustrating, should not be considered especially challenging...