Word: unpopular
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...Newsweek’s use of an anonymous source, we agree that transparency is always the best policy—but it is not always a feasible one. Sources cannot always be expected to go on the record, particularly when they come forward with the most damning or unpopular information. And it is not as though the media is unaccountable for what it prints—as in this case, Newsweek has come under scrutiny and has now set the record straight. The irony, of course, that the Bush administration—who took us to war based...
...free market is the least conservative institution on earth;” and they are absolutely right. In principle the idea of a free market is better than socialism, but completely untrammeled free-markets are immoral and cruel. The label of “libertarian” is unpopular because of some of the more outrageous members of that political grouping, but I would argue that it is the word that best describes many American conservatives and especially conservatives at Harvard and other elite universities...
...main invasion routes to Seoul, the area was the scene of frequent skirmishes during the Korean War. Planners carefully spaced Ilsan's new high-rises to slow any onslaught from enemy tanks and troops. In those days, the town's proximity to North Korea made it an unpopular place to live. Today, property prices are as high as those in the rest of metropolitan Seoul. "Lots of people want to live here," says real estate broker Kim Bok Chun, 50. "There's lots of fresh air." The threat of a nuclear test by the North? "This isn't affecting...
...Arroyo has seen her popularity plummet since being elected President last May, largely because of unpopular economic moves like new taxes intended to combat the Philippines' budget deficit and a hike in electricity and petrol prices to offset rising oil costs, which have prompted numerous street protests. "These protests and bishops worry me no end," says Jose Ma. Rufino, national executive director of Arroyo's Lakas Party. "It's a new phenomenon." Unfortunately, coup tremors in the Philippines are anything...
...PSLM’s exploits aren’t the most interesting example of what unpopular tactics can do. Forty-four years and three days before the Puker, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter that would become famous. He was not attacking Southern mobs or Northern politicians. The targets of King’s letter were the liberal ministers and rabbis who had previously been some of his most powerful supporters. When King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had moved into Birmingham to stage a civil disobedience campaign, the liberal clergy objected to King’s tactics...