Word: unpopular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...overall political climate has proven that cutting education is unpopular, she said...
Prop. 209 has engendered a small industry of polling on affirmative action. What the polls reveal is that the phrase is reasonably popular, but the word preferences is extremely unpopular. In real life, alas, there is no affirmative-action plan that doesn't involve preferences--that is, taking minority race or female gender into account as a plus factor. That's why affirmative action is another one of those issues on which it's more difficult than is immediately apparent to give the public what it wants. The debate around it really leads into a much larger and more profound...
...ever lengthening preoperative tests, power is divided three ways: the presidential administration, headed by the young, ambitious and abrasive Anatoli Chubais; Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin; and national security chief Alexander Lebed. Lebed and Chernomyrdin have presidential ambitions. Chubais, whose role in the privatization of Russian industry made him deeply unpopular, has no hope of winning the presidency but would clearly like to be Prime Minister in the post-Yeltsin era. No single member of the triad can claim supremacy over the others, and none trusts his two colleagues. Watching, and ready to join in when the opportunity arises...
...hoped to use. One of the reasons why commentators are now busily writing stories about the inept Republican campaign is that President Clinton simply took away each and every issue the Republicans had used successfully over the past four presidential elections. Dole's weakness was not that he was unpopular--his favorability rating stayed in the mid-to-upper 50s throughout the fall; it was that he lacked the issues and the rationale needed for a challenger to unseat an incumbent President during good economic times...
Forsgard says that she and House Master Stephen A. Mitchell bring to Eliot experience with randomization, since they were both tutors in North House, now Pforzheimer, during the '80s, an unpopular time for the dorm...