Word: unpopular
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This person had been the most visible officer of a landlord corporation that spent $180,000 trying to crush the rent control rights of its tenants. The corporations attack on its tenants were so unpopular that the corporations stopped electing directors for years because the people who controlled the corporation feared that new directors, once elected, would stop its attacks on its tenants...
McCarthy started the relationship off badly by making a lighthearted remark about Hitler. Apologies were useless. But Arendt warmed up three years later, after both women took the same unpopular position at a political meeting. "Let's end this nonsense," she told McCarthy. "We think so much alike...
...Yeltsin contemplated that possibility, he was also scrambling to deal with the political and economic fallout from his unpopular and ill-advised campaign. Despite official denials, three Deputy Defense Ministers who had been openly critical of the Chechen war were reported to have been ousted by Yeltsin, including General Boris Gromov, the popular Afghan war veteran widely viewed as a strong contender for the post of Defense Minister. Yeltsin also sought to project the image that he was in command. ``I am in strict control of the Russian security structures, and I learn about the situation in Chechnya every...
...fact, which neither Clinton seems capable of grasping, is that love is not a perquisite of public life. To stand for anything momentarily unpopular, like health reform or help for the poor, is to risk being momentarily reviled. So far, Hillary Clinton's responses to the inevitable flak have been painful to witness. She dishonors her whole sex when she apologizes, runs back to the image molders or threatens to "soften" herself to the consistency of a milk-dipped chocolate-chip cookie. Personally, and speaking from the shelter of relative anonymity, I would be honored to have Newt Gingrich, even...
...footnote to history when her controversial evaluation of a 1980s Holocaust education program surfaced, triggering a gleeful fusillade of criticism from Democrats. In 1986, Jeffrey had written that the junior high school program in question contained "no evidence of balance or objectivity. The Nazi point of view, however unpopular, is still a point of view and is not presented, nor is that of the Ku Klux Klan." Moving quickly to avoid a prolonged, Clintonian embarrassment, Gingrich fired the professor the same day the evaluation came to light, though an assistant of Jeffrey's claimed the Speaker had known about...