Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some professors praise Bok's system of reading tenure candidates' work carefully, and then referring their cases to special ad hoc committees. These professors say that Bok's final decisions are relatively free of bias, even though they may be unpopular...
...committees have produced some extremely unpopular decisions, and critics have charged that they merely exist to maintain the status quo, which is slanted against junior faculty...
...York City. Police were trying to enforce an unpopular curfew on Manhattan's Tompkins Square Park, and hundreds of protesters had gathered on Aug. 6, 1988. Without warning, a wave of cops tore into the crowd and began clubbing and kicking demonstrators and bystanders alike. A video artist taped scenes that became key evidence in a trial of five officers. Though none were convicted, the top cop at the park that evening retired, and the police commissioner publicly criticized the actions of New York's finest as leading to unnecessary confrontations...
...business groups have met with failure in earlier attempts to seek relief from the court, they were heartened by indications that, given an appropriate case, the Justices might rule in their favor. Their disappointment last week was shared by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "Juries are permitted to target unpopular defendants, penalize unorthodox or controversial views, and redistribute wealth," she wrote in a dissenting opinion. "Multi-million- dollar losses are inflicted on a whim...
EVEN IF universal conscription is not a panacea for preventing unpopular wars, it does over time prevent leaders of democratic nations from prosecuting wars that stray too far from the national interest. Israel, whose citizens all serve terms in the army, got involved in a conflict in Lebanon in 1982 that ultimately proved unpopular among a majority of its citizens. Given the fact that men and women from all sectors of Israeli society were dying in the war, public opinion eventually compelled Israel to withdraw from most of Lebanon--in much less time and with far fewer losses than America...