Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without this kind of false rhetoric, my father would not have been promoted. By making it a requirement for professional promotion, volunteer work became a burden associated with an increasingly unpopular political system; this connotation eventually emptied the noble meaning of volunteer work reducing it to an unpleasant constraint...
...spend $7,500 on an unpopular band. It is understandable that the Council may not have the funds to hire a first-rate band given other economic priorities and the College's complete lack of financial support. However, there are innumerable ways that $7,500 could have benefited the student body, from more MAC treadmills to massive Council-sponsored study breaks to increased funding for student groups. If you've got the money for Aerosmith, Beck or A Tribe Called Quest, go for it. If not, let student bands play and spend the money elsewhere like alcohol...
However, student activists on campus have recently adopted an incremental approach to creating an increased emphasis on the study of ethnicity on campus. Rather than pushing for a department, which has proven unpopular with a Faculty that must approve it, students are seeking to increase the number of professors and courses that study ethnicity...
Though individuals still account for the great bulk of giving (private donors gave 80% of the $144 billion raised by charities in 1995), some are worried that charities that aren't sexy enough to attract business support will suffer. Where would that leave relatively unpopular causes such as mental illness? "Ninety percent of the charity universe doesn't benefit from the hundreds of millions of dollars generated through cause marketing," notes Robert Bothwell, president of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy...
...fairly easy to tell if a dish is unpopular, particularly if you make 30 pans and have 29 left over," Mayer said...