Word: unpopularity
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While I was stuck on such pedestrian topics as the effort to bring back flammable pajamas for children (there's another concept), my brethren in the media turned in a performance that has made us more unpopular with the American public than Linda Tripp. Nice going, team...
...profane one. But a White House insider argued otherwise: "It was a great piece of bait, and the Republicans took it." Instead of focusing their fire on Clinton's lying or misconduct in the Oval Office, he noted, they are using their sound bites to defend the most unpopular man in America. That may not pull Starr up much, and if the Democrats have any luck, it may pull down the Republicans. And it certainly is a diversion...
...Chairman of the Federal Reserve for 19 years; in Washington. Martin, who helped define the Federal Reserve as an independent entity, was known for his cautious, if not entirely dire, predictions; he described economic booms as "the party that leads to the hangover." His no-nonsense style--and occasionally unpopular stands--nevertheless managed to inspire the trust of Presidents from Truman to Nixon...
...Chicago arm of John Kennedy's Organized Crime Strike Force. That position led to an early brush with history: he was with his boss Robert Kennedy hours before the Attorney General's brother was shot in Dallas. Schippers' credentials--including nailing reputed mobster Sam Giancana and regularly defending unpopular clients like 1980s porn star Seka--have left him with an urge for rigor when it comes to gathering and evaluating evidence. "You can't prejudge what you don't know anything about," the father of 10 told the Los Angeles Times last month. "That's one of the things that...
...believer in free will and the right of adults to choose their own paths in life, I have sympathy for a few of the offenders whose lurid stories I read on the AP wire. Juvenile delinquents are one thing. Reading the story of the teenagers who killed an unpopular classmate with a noose during a night of torture, I wondered what other factors had contributed to this crime committed by such young kids...