Word: unpopular
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...Farrell opposed the war from the beginning, and Shays' position has become increasingly unpopular in this blue state. In August, Shays became one of the few Republicans to call for a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq, while Farrell has called for creating benchmarks that determine when troops return home. Farrell's challenge is to convince voters to dump a well-liked congressman because they disagree with him on Iraq and want Democrats to control Congress as a check on President Bush...
...good time to be doing that, and actually Fox really followed through. I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making Kingdom of Heaven. And people are rediscovering it. So it ain't disappeared, love. I was very happy about G.I. Jane. It just was unpopular, but it's going to be turned into a TV series. So it ain't a bad idea...
...ignorance. We are thus not ready to make decisions about what a “liberal arts” education means. The ability to make an informed choice is perverted into searching the CUE Guide for the most acceptable ratio between course difficulty and workload. Though it may sound unpopular, what we need is less freedom: We need a system like Columbia’s. The Columbia Core is a rigid requirement of ten arenas, concentrating portal courses in Literature Humanities, Contemporary Civilization, Frontiers of Science, Art Humanities, and even Physical Education. The rationale is obvious: There is a body...
...public transportation and give tax breaks for fuel-efficient cars and home appliances. He is also committed to clean energy. In fact, he was one of the earliest supporters of the Cape Wind Project, which will build a wind farm off the coast of Nantucket, when it was unpopular and politically risky. Patrick’s commitment to his values—in this case protecting the environment through renewable and clean energy—always comes before politics...
...commission was forced to cancel the show in order to minimize losses, which were already somewhere in the range of $30,000.To this day, no one knows exactly what went wrong. One possibility was that the HCC was unable to properly assess student interest and had picked an unpopular artist.A proposed remedy for this dilemma was to democratize the HCC, or as a Nov. 2, 2005 Crimson staff editorial put it, to “institute direct elections of the commission.”For the time being though, the HCC doesn’t see the need to make...