Word: unpopular
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...Poland. Everybody who has been following the past year's political turmoil started to feel deeply uneasy when the Spanish election results were announced. Poles really hoped that Poland and Spain could be political allies, especially since we stood together and took part in the Iraq invasion, an unpopular move opposed by most of Europe. Now Poles are afraid that they will be left alone to face frosty relations with the other European states. The situation is a good example of how, in the global village, events in one country can substantially change the climate in another. Agnieszka Idzik Jaslo...
...unpopular? Some say it's inherently regressive--that it affects the poor more than the rich. In reality, it tends to affect the middle class more than anyone else, especially those in the suburbs with more than one car. The truly needy tend to consume less gas than their middle-class compatriots. Others say it penalizes those in remote and rural areas. So what? Very few taxes are perfect, and our electoral system--with its over-representation of big agricultural states in the Senate--already pampers the rural. (I'd gladly exchange a gas-tax hike for abolition of agricultural...
...helps Bush that when he backslides, he is typically shifting to a popular position from an unpopular one. He not only opposed Rice's testifying publicly before the 9/11 commission, on the ground of Executive privilege, but had opposed creation of the com-mission until the pressure from, among others, the victims' families became too hot. Yet any political damage, argues a senior Administration official, is "totally overwhelmed by the fact of her testifying." Bush is allowing another commission to investigate prewar intelligence on Iraq, which he had also opposed; wooing the U.N., which he had derided; and signed...
...over the government's claims. The attackers ignored American installations, like the Karshi-Khanabad air base that supports U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and passed over the U.S. embassy. And these assaults were not directed at civilians but specifically focused on Uzbekistan's police force, which is deeply unpopular due to its alleged corruption and brutality. Western diplomats and independent Uzbek observers say the attacks signal the revival of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a group that found a safe haven in Afghanistan under the Taliban and allegedly has close links to al-Qaeda. The IMU's main...
...shrinking of the state than Raffarin's. He's precisely the man capable of driving millions more French voters into the arms of the Socialists." Given that, Chirac may see no option but to stick with Raffarin regardless of the regional outcome - and assuage voter anger by sacrificing other unpopular cabinet members. But since conservative reform itself appears to be the source of public vexation, a few sacrificial lambs won't change much. And Raffarin will have little option but to push on with reform, in hopes that the economy comes back to life before the Socialists...