Word: unpopular
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...attain statehood, like restrictions of the number of returning refugees, limited control of Jerusalem and the loss of part of the West Bank. Bush's decision to play it cool for now was a bitter pill for Blair, who went to Washington hoping the U.S. would pay back his unpopular solidarity in Iraq with more assertive peacemaking in Jerusalem. Blair wants to give the Palestinians momentum, but Bush told him, "What we don't want to do is push too far too fast...
...entitled “Real Estate and Artistic Identity in Late 19th-Century New York.” He focused on the search for a new home in Manhattan, and used the debate between members (uptown vs. downtown, sponsors vs. independence, galleries vs. school rooms, a highly unpopular proposal in Central Park) as a symbol of the rocky transformation of art’s role into something with high social cachet...
...ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review suggests creating fellowships for outstanding TFs and making short training courses in evaluating student work mandatory for grad-student teachers. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby also believes that instituting a system of preregistration—an unpopular ogre of a policy that we fiercely oppose—might improve the general quality of TFs. None of these policies or proposals is a real solution to uneven TF teaching...
...always stood up for economic principles even if they are unpopular,” Laibson said...
...Mason and the witness in the same frame, so the directors had Mason walk over and lean on the witness rail. Then juries expected lawyers to do that, and if they didn't, jurors thought something was wrong." Moreover, Stone says, Dragnet helped save the Miranda ruling, which was unpopular with law enforcement and some politicians, by showing viewers that reading suspects their rights didn't hamper the cops' ability to interrogate them. And former Los Angeles County public defender Stan Goldman, now a Loyola law professor and legal editor for Fox News, says Quincy had lawyers concerned that juries...