Word: unpopularities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ankrah feels understandably edgy. He has taken some unpopular steps in an attempt to rescue the nearly bankrupt economy left behind by Nkrumah. He has, for example, shut down work on many grandiose and unrealistic construction projects that Nkrumah had scattered throughout the country. One result is that 50,000 people have been thrown out of work. Ankrah fears that many of them might be glad to see Nkrumah return, if only to get their jobs back. The most immediate threat from Nkrumah is not armed subversion but the ability to stir up in Ghana a state of nervousness...
...that there is serious debate about the draft at this time (as opposed to 1963, for example, when a vote on this issue last came up in Congress, and a group of pacifists led a little known campaign to abolish conscription) is that our government is fighting an undeclared, unpopular, and unjust war in Vietnam. Without the draft this war could not be fought; without an increased manpower pool, it could not be escalated. Our opposition to the draft is part and parcel of our opposion to the war in Vietnam and American aggression all over the world...
What Reagan confronts at this point is the possibility of an early and bitter clash with the legislature over a retrenchment program that now seems unpopular. Even a man of his limited political experience must realize that such a run-in would probably poison any programs he might try to push through in the future...
...motives for bedecking someone's house are as various as the names for it. Captains of losing football teams, unpopular girls and teachers take it as a sign of hate. Pretty and popular girls, on the other hand, consider it a compliment from a secret admirer. Often they are right. A Birmingham, Mich., high school boy puts it this way: "If a girl is outstanding, you kind of like to make her house outstanding." Q.E.D...
...many, I think he failed in conquering the true democratic ways the people support. On the contrary, by fighting inflation he meant the he should be unpopular, Actually, he did not curb inflation but to a certain extent, but he could have curbed it bylaw and order and by simply making an effort for more productivity and production...