Word: unpopular
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...words, Senator Jesse Helms, the ultra-conservative Republican slated to head the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expanded on his Nov. 18 remark that President Clinton is not up to the job of Commander in Chief. The North Carolinian followed up by telling a Raleigh newspaper that Clinton was so unpopular with the military that he had "better watch out" and "have a bodyguard" if he visits Helms' state. Though the Senator later conceded his remark was a "mistake," the incendiary statement provoked anger from congressional Democrats, solemn disapproval from the President and verbal minuets from Republican leaders seeking to distance...
Star Trek began life as a campy, unpopular TV show in the late...
...hard to know if you can increase gridlock," Edwards says. "I think gridlock is merely the people's representatives stopping unpopular legislation from being passed...
...Speaker is also running against his own record on national issues. His past two years of shepherding through Congress the programs of an unpopular Democratic President have taken their toll on Foley's standing in a district where most people generally vote Republican. Foley's efforts to pass an assault-weapons ban have provoked the National Rifle Association, which had once awarded him its Defender of Freedom award, to run TV ads against him. Also weighing in is Illinois-based Americans for Limited Terms, which is outraged over Foley's lawsuit to overturn his own state's term-limit initiative...
...often, we immediately dismiss those ideas with which we strongly disagree, without reflecting on them or considering their merits. When we deal with unpopular statements in this manner, when we append the label "offensive" to any argument with which we don't want to grapple, we place free speech and liberal education in grave danger...