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...Only and unpopular person would ask that question...
Just six months ago, midway through his bumpy and very public schooling in how to head a nation, Bill Clinton qualified as the most unpopular first-year President since polling began in the 1930s. But by last week, as he marked his first anniversary in office and got down to work on his State of the Union ; address, his approval ratings had bounced back to the healthy levels of his giddy Inaugural season. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, 54% of those surveyed said they approve of Clinton's presidential performance, while only 34% disapproved...
...million bath for the first half of 1993. The total net worth of the International is roughly $60 million today, down from $154 million in 1991. At the current rate of brotherly rot, the union will be insolvent by 1995 unless Carey seeks and achieves a politically unpopular dues increase...
Americans need to acknowledge that Mexico is not the only Latin American country which has undertaken difficult and unpopular reforms to follow the liberalization trends strongly advocated and promoted by the United States. NAFTA has a special access clause which allows other countries of the hemisphere to join the free trade area if they are willing to lower their tariffs and other barriers accordingly. Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia are potential candidates that could expand the North American Free Trade Area all the way down to the Southern Cone. President Salinas has said that the fate of the free trade...
They are obviously, and intensely, unpopular. Yet voters in Washington State approved a $1 billion increase to pay for a new state health-care plan, and in California, the motherland of tax protest, voters made permanent a half-cent increase in the sales tax for hiring more fire fighters and police. Even in New Jersey, anger at the $2.8 billion increase Florio pushed through in 1990 would not by itself have been enough to beat him, in the view of Whitman's campaign manager, Ed Rollins. His attack against Florio focused on the idea that the state's economy...