Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move left Bill Clinton fumbling for an effective retort just when he had adopted stern new measures himself. He had persuaded the United Nations to harden sanctions against Haiti's outlaw regime. He had announced a new asylum policy that would end the unpopular practice of forcibly repatriating Haitian refugees without a hearing. He had appointed William Gray III, head of the United Negro College Fund, as Washington's new Haiti czar. Now he dangled threats of a military invasion of the island nation...
...said to be alienated from their right minds), Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, once a student of William James at Harvard. His belief is that childhood experiences are more important than inherited tendencies in ordering behavior, and this psychological determinism, an offense to the ideal of free will, is widely unpopular with the clergy, the mayor and other conventional thinkers. But Theodore Roosevelt, the new police commissioner, is enthusiastic, and on the sly he backs an investigation...
...council, it seems, was eager to publicizean important and popular issue, but was lesswilling to inform student about an equallyimportant, but much more unpopular, measure...
...department's decision to replace FineArts 13 courses with a series of smaller, focusedclasses was so unpopular with students that thedepartment is now staking out a compromiseposition...
...remote surveillance. Parked just down the block, agents are able to pick up the electromagnetic waves that dance across a suspect's computer screen and convert them back into characters and words on a monitor. They can read everything the suspect is writing. While imaginative, this method is unpopular with law-enforcement authorities because they have to sit and watch the TV screen for weeks or review hours of videotape to see everything a suspect is doing...