Word: unpopularities
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...long, long time from May to November, and Carter could be tripped up by any one of many imponderables ?a slip of the tongue, an unpopular stand on an issue or, of course, the voters' rejection of him. But these are the hazards of the trade that he long ago took...
...lira has fallen drastically and economic growth has come to a standstill. DC rule has been marked by widespread corruption and scandal. The recent charge that party leaders accepted payoffs from the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation is a stellar example. Furthermore, their conservative position on social issues has become increasingly unpopular with the electorate, sixty percent of which defied the DC and the Vatican and supported divorce in a referendum held last year...
Juliana's heir is Crown Princess Beatrix, 38, whose imperious ways have not endeared her to the Dutch. She made an unpopular marriage in 1966 to a German, Claus von Amsberg. However, Prince Claus, now 49, surprised royalty watchers by learning to speak
This free-enterprise detective service was quite satisfactory to many citizens, but another aspect of police work was quite disagreeable. The state legislature kept trying to control or ban the sale of liquor in rowdy Boston, and the police were instructed to enforce the unpopular laws. As one might expect, there soon developed a pattern of sporadic, selective enforcement accompanied by charges of corruption and harassment met by countercharges of hypocrisy and stupidity...
...ceased to be self-regulating and had turned over more and more functions once performed by families and neighbors to policemen, wardens, penitentiaries, almshouses and asylums. The police could maintain order-the mob was no longer tolerated-but they could not prevent crime; they could enforce laws, but not unpopular ones; criminals might fear prison, but they were not reformed by it. With immigration approaching flood levels, the normal disputes over the nature of public order and the sources of criminality were intensified by ethnic cleavages and the distaste for "foreigners." Though evangelical revivals took place from time to time...