Word: unpopular
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...that your headline fueled the perception that both Iran's government and its people are hostile to the U.S. The people of Bam suffered a tragedy of unimaginable proportions and are now forced to live in destitute circumstances. It is unfair to the victims to align them with the unpopular theocratic regime under the heading "enemy." Jessica Lajevardi Windsor, Canada...
...government elected directly would be particularly friendly towards the U.S. or agree to a long-term presence of U.S. troops. But handing over power to the IGC, which U.S. officials long ago conceded lacks popular legitimacy, could inflame Shiite opposition and leave U.S. troops having to defend an unpopular regime from its own citizens...
...countries. Unfortunately, the revered image of American soldiers has become tarnished over the decades. Their deployment in Iraq has given them the character of the Roman legions sent forth by a decadent and malevolent Emperor. The U.S. soldier is a pawn in a war that is not only unpopular but also wrong. ALEX KETTLE Bundaberg, Australia...
...planning it cut into the teaching demands of the Fall semester. Without attracting the quality classes that the true semesters do, a J-Term would likely offer cast-off courses—filling classrooms with dispirited junior professors forced to teach out of career considerations. The certain-to-be-unpopular alternative—forcing faculty members to alternate teaching J-Term courses—could overload professors and have a negative impact on the courses in the fall and spring term courses...
...high-ranking government official. "He's a corporate cheerleader more than an administrator." He has proved less than skillful with Congress, where the center-left PRI still has a strong plurality and which last month torpedoed Fox's ambitious $9 billion fiscal-reform plan after he insisted on an unpopular sales tax on food and medicine. That has dampened prospects for other measures dear to investors, such as opening the energy sector to foreign capital and revamping Mexico's ossified labor unions. Though polls show Fox is still popular, "he keeps overestimating the political power of that personal appeal," says...