Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This fall my Core section has also pushed the distinction between "section" and an unpopular lecture course. At least the section was packed for the first two meetings. Last week, our ranks had shrunk to 15, but that was because, I suspect, we had a paper due that...
Politicians have blamed unpopular measures, like agricultural reforms, on the bureaucrats. But a wholesale lapse in leadership throughout the Community allowed doubts and suspicions to take root. Political leaders galloped ahead, blithely drawing up plans without consulting the wishes, worries and hopes of the people. Last week a sizable portion made it clear they are not about to trade their national identity for something else without knowing why. "Maastricht has yet to be explained," acknowledged Portugal's President Mario Soares...
...Democrats in Congress fought tooth and nail for an unpopular $50 tax credit Charter had proposed during the campaign. But when the credit passed the Congress, Carter withdrew his support, infuriating many members of his own party...
...greatest threat to world peace in the post-cold war era. He sees the global contagion of secessionism as profoundly destabilizing. In three cases that came to a head last year -- Iraq, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union -- Bush instinctively sided with the central governments, no matter how unpopular and repressive, against separatists...
...They've driven themselves into a particularposition," Peterson said," at a time in which thePresident is quite unpopular to begin with...