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...with national focus not because a blueprint designed by a small group of political operatives, but because he is a dynamic, thoughtful individual. Cohen is simply wrong--Cuomo does have a strong political ideology which he has articulated over and over again. As for taking strong, unpopular stands, Cuomo's views on the death penalty and abortion are among the most courageous and heartfelt in the country's leadership. If Cohen cannot identify Cuomo's ideology, that's his problem, not the country's and not Cuomo...
Wang also had to fight the resistance of his board of directors to his unpopular--but ultimately successful--business decisions, such as switching from a lucrative calculator market to the highly competitive arena of computers and word processing, and from the New York Stock Exchange to the less prestigious American Stock Exchange...
...failed assassination attempt represented a dramatically sharp escalation of opposition to Pinochet's repressive regime. Though he is now highly unpopular, even among many conservatives who supported him when he led the military coup that ousted the government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, this was the first attempt to kill the President...
...triumph as often as he has, Tisch has thumbed his nose at conventional wisdom. He buys companies or stocks when they are wildly unpopular and shuns anything that is remotely in vogue. "I'm always looking for companies that have real value," he says, "companies that we would be proud to own." Says E. John Rosenwald, an executive at Bear Stearns, a New York brokerage firm, and a Tisch family friend: "He's not a herd follower." Last year, for example, Tisch bought seven oil supertankers for a fraction of what it would have cost to build them...
...polite and well spoken, but, as Orr puts it, "this is no Bake-Off." The candidates tend to agree on contentious issues like abortion (both oppose it), but neither has hesitated to exploit the other's weak points. Boosalis has tried to tie Orr to the Reagan Administration's unpopular farm policies, while Orr has pounced on Boosalis' proposals for restructuring property taxes as "devastating" to senior citizens. Few Nebraska voters gender an issue. When Baptist Pastor Everett Sileven jumped into the Republican primary and argued that female leadership "is a sure sign of God's curse," he finished...