Word: unpopularities
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...Jewish cause is unpopular because it is embarrassing for Jews to stand up and be counted as Jews to that is what they really care about," Dershowitz said...
Jackson is close to Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, consults with him frequently, and is likely to recommend only minor cuts in the Pentagon's proposed $9 billion increase in defense spending next year, even though it is unpopular with liberals. He favors mutual arms reduction by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. He faulted the interim arms agreement because he thought it favored the Soviets. More recently he agreed with liberals that Ford's Vladivostok agreement set too high a limit on the two countries' strategic weapons...
...contenders. Mrs. Thatcher herself allowed that she did not think that the Conservative Party would be ready for a woman chief in her lifetime. Whether or not she manages to secure a second-ballot victory this week, the controversial M.P.-whom the London Sun once dubbed "the most unpopular woman in England"-is now firmly entrenched as a major force in the traditionally male world of British politics...
...degree of intellectual freedom. The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessary also deprives others of the right to listen to those views...
...taught law briefly at Gonzaga University. Before running for Congress himself in 1964, he worked on the staff of "Scoop" Jackson's Senate Interior Committee. Although he backed military-spending projects like the ABM, Foley was chairman of the liberal Democratic Study Group. Unlike the bellow-voiced, unpopular Poage, Foley is quiet, almost diffident; he has a preference for Mozart and Bach...