Word: unpopularities
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...Food Services staff is understandably reluctant to consider such possibly unpopular policy changes as restricting portions and using more soybeans, fearing the wrath of their dissatisfied "customers." But this fear should not prevent anyone from experimenting. It may just turn out that people here are beginning to think of themselves less as customers and more as people living in a world that is threatened by the possibility of starvation on a massive scale. The point is that food is a social commodity that should be distributed according to need and not according to purchasing power...
...terms of lives, money, or morale. In addition, a spiralling inflation rate, presently 42 percent, a poor balance of payments deficit of roughly $3.5 billion, and dwindling foreign donations (due to a world recession) have plunged the country into an economic depression. And to increase discontent, sever and unpopular austerity measures have been imposed...
...campaign, Republicans dubbed her "Spenderella" because she promised not to raise taxes at the same time that she pledged to expand social welfare programs. But Grasso campaigned largely against a highly unpopular utility rate increase. Once she had disclosed that consumers had been overcharged $19 million in one year because of a miscalculation and began to exploit that fact, Steele did not have a chance...
Fonda charged that the United States is creating a "massive police state" by supporting the "unpopular and undemocratic dictatorship" of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Thieu...
...will continue. Even if this struggle is remote from the people of the United States, we must not allow our government to increase or even continue its present aid to a regime that, by its very nature, demands war conditions and a police state to maintain an illegitimate and unpopular dictatorship...