Word: unpopularity
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This time Gui sent his report directly to Beijing, where it was treated with the seriousness it deserved. Henan officials were finally pressured into action, but this only made Gui more unpopular in the province, and he became the target of smear campaigns and physical threats...
...borrowing business is gaining credibility. Smith is encouraged by his site's returning-member visits, whose number is growing more than 30% a month. "One of the beautiful things about this model is it takes a lot of the risk out of fashion," namely losses from returned merchandise and unpopular stock...
...incumbent was so unpopular, why did Merkel so obviously fail to garner more enthusiasm? She had a few cards in her favor: Germany has never had a female chancellor, nor one from East Germany, and her credibility as an economic liberalizer is enhanced because she is a former inhabitant of Soviet-controlled East Germany. Her program promised a strengthened transatlantic alliance to end the excessive anti-American zeal of the Schrder era. Above all, it aimed to relaunch the German economy through liberalization, easily the most discussed issue in the pre-electoral debate...
...recent opinion poll by the Washington-based Pew Research Center found that nearly two-thirds of French and Germans are opposed to Turkey joining the E.U. The unease in Europe plays into the hands of Kerinçsiz and other opponents of membership by making it harder to sell unpopular reforms. "The rise of nationalism in Turkey has a lot to do with Turkey's internal dynamics, but it is being compounded by the E.U.'s attitude," says Hakan Altinay, head of the Open Society Institute in Turkey. "We are being exposed to the pettiest side...
...down at least 10% from just one year ago, according to the German Marshall Fund. Moreover, 30% of Turks now believe that their country will never join the club. The E.U. has not made the process of accession easy, demanding a range of reforms, some of which are deeply unpopular in Turkey - and not just with nationalists. These include loosening restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language, and on Kurdish media, even as a new Kurdish insurgency is gaining momentum in the southeast. Demands that Turkey recognize Greek-controlled Cyprus and changes aimed at bringing Turkey's penal code...