Word: unpopular
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...implementation of the General Education curriculum, the creation of a sweeping financial aid increase, and plans for a $1 billion House renewal project.But in answering a call of duty to the University, the 68-year-old from the English coast became the conveyer of a number of unpopular decisions, including the end of the Undergraduate Council’s alcohol reimbursement program and the two-year suspension of transfer admissions.Pilbeam’s reticence and relative lack of visibility over the past year have proven problematic for his reputation among many students, but respect and admiration for him runs...
...fall, Hammonds will have her work cut out for her in terms of developing a relationship with the undergraduate student body, whose relationship with Pilbeam was rocky as a result of several unpopular decisions...
...Democrats have a lot to be optimistic about. We have a tremendous fund-raising advantage, we’ve enjoyed far higher participation rates in the primaries (there’s a correlation between primary and general election participation), and the Republican Party is profoundly unpopular...
...need of being reorganized to eliminate walk-throughs, crowded doubles, and cramped common rooms. In conjunction with the College’s decision to re-open Mass. Hall to freshmen, restructuring the Houses will hopefully help to alleviate the housing crunch that precipitated the University’s profoundly unpopular decision to abruptly end transfer admissions for the next two years...
...true. But it is also true that if Blair's foundation is to take off, it will need support from Europe-and especially from his home country-as much as from the U.S. That is by no means assured. By the time he left office, Blair was deeply unpopular in Britain, and not just because of Iraq; Britons were tired of what they saw as a government of constant spin, tinged, toward the end, with sleaze. Though Blair's successor, Gordon Brown, has seen his own popularity plummet, there is no sign yet that Blair's reputation...