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Extinction also awaits the pound note (current worth: $1.25). First issued in 1797, it is being replaced by a thick metal-alloy coin. Like the Susan B. Anthony dollar in the U.S., the heavy coin has been unpopular. But since the useful life of a paper pound is ten months, vs. 40 years for the coin, the Royal Mint expects to save $3.75 million a year. The British have already dubbed the new coin the Maggie, after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, because it is hard, rough around the edges and, says one Member of Parliament, "pretends to be a sovereign...
Gradually, the younger of those sons, Sanjay, began edging onto center stage. By 1975 he was dispensing orders in his mother's name, popping up on posters next to his mother and initiating a series of unpopular schemes. These included his notorious program of forced sterilization, whereby those who submitted to vasectomies were rewarded with tinny transistor radios...
Beneath the cloud cover of his visions, Helms has attacked Hunt on all fronts. He has sought to portray Hunt as the fickle puppet of interest groups he believes are unpopular in North Carolina--labor unions, Blacks, and gays. A publisher sympathetic to Helms recently ran an article in his conservative paper The Leader with the headline JIM HUNT IS SISSY, PRISSY, GIRLISH AND EFFEMINATE. Helms repudiated the article, which went on to claim that Hunt had a homosexual lover, but his aides still refer to opposition staffers as "queers". Further, Helms has used their television debates to bait Hunt...
...Rajasekaran, an Indian graduate student in the applied science and the Indian people will be angry at the Sikhs. He said that negotiations will be unpopular...
Rajasekaran said that the majority party, known as the Indira Congress, could win the elections, but that it is unlikely the unpopular Gandhi would become Prime Minister. He added that Gandhi is inexperienced in politics and has little popular support...