Word: unpopular
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...Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, who has no authority to issue military orders, encouraged Miller's trip. Some on Capitol Hill, where Cambone is unpopular, think he could take the blame if the scandal widens. But Cambone may be insulated. He has long been a key aide to Donald Rumsfeld, spearheading some of Rumsfeld's top causes--missile defense, modernizing the Pentagon and unifying intelligence operations--despite having relatively little intelligence experience...
Iraqi resentment has built up in small steps--the loss of a job, the lack of power, insecurity, the unpopular design of the new Iraqi flag. But frustrations were crystallized by the U.S. siege of Fallujah. Until recently, Baghdadis tended to view Fallujah, a town of 200,000 people some 30 miles west of the capital, as a big village notable for its conservative townsfolk and excellent grilled meats. Now, right or wrong, it has become a unifying symbol of Iraqis' clamor for self-determination. "Saddam killed the nationalist feelings inside us," says Basim Mohammed Ridha, 42, who sells fertilizer...
...allowances have little to do with consumers and add complexity to operations. Yet the industry has relied on them for profits--instead of, say, finding and selling the stuff that shoppers really want. Grocery manufacturers, who have leaned on the allowance system to help launch new products and unload unpopular ones, were forced to shift gears because Wal-Mart forgoes all allowances and simply negotiates--famously and ferociously--for a lower total price, or dead net cost...
...considered the possibility that many of its projects do remarkably little to enhance students’ quality of life. Some successful projects, like One Dollar Movie Nights, only require council funding if corporate sponsorship can’t be found—which is unlikely. Other events, like the unpopular yet enduring Fallfest, which cost $11,000 last year, remain as edifices to the council’s disconnect with students. And some projects, though well-attended, like the recent Busta Rhymes concert (2,700 attendees), require massive expenditures—a total of $40,000 from the council...
...mails from buyers and sellers. A mother of two, Whitman knows that some of eBay's biggest customers are people who never thought they would touch a computer. She pays homage to them on Oprah as well as at trade shows. If a new eBay feature is unpopular, she'll pull it. When users complained about not being able to use the electronic payment service PayPal for eBay transactions, she bought PayPal for $1.5 billion. Which explains why they chant her name. And why this self-effacing star is the envy of just about everyone in the Web world...