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Having agitated Britons with high-profile campaigns touting condom use, Amnesty International and her (widely unpopular) opposition to the Gulf War, Roddick has now turned her attention to the U.S., where she has 120 stores and plans to open 40 more this year. Last summer Roddick joined with three dozen U.S. firms -- including Stride Rite shoes and Ben & Jerry's ice cream -- to form Businesses for Social Responsibility, a politically correct alternative to the Chamber of Commerce with ambitions to "revolutionize how business in America operates" by promoting such progressive policies as family leave and environmentally sound manufacturing...
Walsh is certainly not the most loved figure in Washington. He has been sniffing at administration officials' garbage for the last six years at high public expense. But perhaps the vigorous work that made him unpopular would not have been necessary if officials had been a little more forthcoming. If all the notes and papers had been in six years ago, time and taxpayers' money would undoubtedly have been saved...
...religion of familiarity has problems. The first is that though it promises to be comprehensive, it in fact leaves a lot of people out. Suppose you have an unpopular disease? To hear Clinton and his peers tell it, the only reason anyone dies in America is because of AIDS, breast cancer or the occasional car accident. In fact, everyone reading these words will die some time or other, many of us quite painfully. If your manner of egress is not on the New Covenanters' list, don't expect any hugs before...
...garden and loves to eat herring with boiled potatoes. To maintain the common touch, he often stops his official motorcade to chat with people on the street. Although he has an unfortunate habit of making promises dictated by the feelings of the moment, he has been courageous in supporting unpopular economic policies that have eroded his standing among ordinary citizens...
Students who do not get their first choice in the first round may still get it in the second, so the new system would allow up to 43 percent of spaces in a given House to be filled by students who place it first. Students indicating an unpopular first choice are almost guaranteed...