Word: unpopular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these senators had it in mind to express qualified assent with their moot no votes, then they will have succeeded in defending themselves against charges that they were vehement supporters of an unpopular measure...
Maybe at heart, they believed that the Clinton plan attacks the problem of the deficit head-on, and though it demands some unpopular sacrifices, it is at bottom a necessary step...
...industry leader McDonald's, which has quietly dropped the unpopular McLean Deluxe from its advertising campaigns, the "burger of the month" is the triple cheeseburger. With 4.8 oz. of beef (and 540 calories), it makes the famed 3.2-oz. Big Mac look puny. And other behemoth burgers are being given regional tryouts. In Texas, McDonald's is testing the Double Texas Homestyle Burger, with 8 oz. of beef, and Washington, D.C., outlets are featuring the Mega Mac, which stacks up two quarter-pound patties with cheese, lettuce, pickles and special sauce on a sesame-seed bun, of course. Appropriately...
...pass. Said Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, a former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee: "The Boren-Danforth amendment will never make it out of the Finance Committee." What it could do, however, is be a starting point for negotiations. One possible compromise would be to substitute a gasoline tax -- unpopular as that would be in the West -- for a BTU tax. In any case, Boren predicted last week that "the BTU tax is dead...
Bailouts of small economies in trouble typically call for painful measures unpopular with those receiving the help. Overhauling a foundering former superpower, a job almost never before attempted, seems to involve much the same formula -- just on a vaster scale. So in working out a package of aid to Russia that could total more than $28 billion, the seven leading industrialized nations -- the Group of Seven -- attached conditions that will make much of the plan unpalatable to Moscow. Nevertheless, said Deputy Prime Minister Boris Fyodorov, Russia welcomes the effort as a "practical, visible approach...