Word: unpopular
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...listeners are attentive as they munch sausages and drink beer in the sunshine. Even a group dressed up as cows - holding signs that say don't milk us! to protest her proposed increase to value-added tax ( vat) - are as docile as, well, cattle. Merkel has defended the unpopular policy, meant to fund a reduction in social-security contributions from wages, by arguing that "people don't earn too much in Germany, but because of the nonwage costs the cost of labor is too high." "We're not making any promises we can't keep," she assures the Dresden crowd...
...scheduled to depart in six weeks). Hamas wants to build low-income housing on the land to bolster popular support in advance of parliamentary elections set for January. Its leaders are casting Hamas as a national, rather than a purely Islamic, party that can beat Abbas' corrupt and unpopular Fatah party at the polls. If Abbas doesn't give Hamas some land--and his aides say the settlement territory will indeed be held by the government--Hamas says it will take what it wants by force...
...anchor at just 26, but realizing he was too green for the job, gave it up to be a foreign correspondent, reporting from Vietnam, the Middle East and beyond. When he returned as anchor in 1978, he advocated for more world news coverage even though it was unpopular. It was said at Jennings' death that the age of the "big three" anchors was over. But he was the least typical of the celebrity anchors. You watched Tom Brokaw for warm confidence, Dan Rather for folksy feistiness. But you watched Jennings for the news. That is what his viewers...
...activist groups who had been focused on the world-after-Rehnquist regeared for a higher-stakes battle over her crucial seat. Those groups have been readying their cell phones and BlackBerrys for years. In an atmosphere of already heightened political polarization, when the U.S. is divided over an increasingly unpopular war and led by a President whose approval ratings have been notching down for months, they are promising to spend record amounts to turn this into a long, hot summer...
Douglass came away from the meeting deeply moved and resumed recruiting. What most impressed him was Lincoln's honesty and sincerity--"there was no vain pomp and ceremony about him ... In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color." He sensed a kindred spirit in Lincoln, someone "whom I could love, honor, and trust without reserve or doubt." The respect was mutual; Lincoln regarded Douglass as "one of the most meritorious men, if not the most meritorious man, in the United States...