Word: unpopularities
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...chances of Social Security changes passing in the Senate, Majority Leader Bill Frist said "we'll see." Last month, House Republican leaders had told Bush that to get his Social Security reforms through Congress, he needed to present a plan with precise details. His ideas have been so unpopular with voters thus far that now Republican legislators have told the White House to keep its plan on Pennsylvania Ave. and let Congress try to craft a palatable proposal itself...
Lawyers and would-be lawyers beware: You could go to jail for defending a client unpopular with the government...
...most grievous crime of all seems to have been her willingness to defend unpopular clients. Her list of clientele includes a Mafia hit man, a man accused of trying to kill police officers, and a blind Egyptian sheikh convicted of terrorist activities—Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. It is on his account that she has been accused and convicted of aiding terrorism...
...oversize miniature-golf course. But as the upper echelons move into their plush digs, the rest of the city is left to wonder why there aren't enough satellite towns suited for them. In the end, Shanghai's concession to an international future may prove as politically unpopular as its foreign concessions of the past...
...Initially, the plan had been to hand power to returning exiles after toppling Saddam Hussein. When the exiles proved too unpopular, the U.S. then sought to have its handpicked Iraqi Governing Council write the new constitution. Even after the IGC proved incapable, the Bush administration consistently rejected Sistani's demand for democratic elections. Instead, U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer proposed, that a constitution-making body be appointed by a series of caucuses comprising handpicked elites around the country. Sistani was having none of it. He insisted on democratic elections, used his influence among Shiites on the Governing Council to block...