Word: unpopularity
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...said politicians do not have to make a choice between foreign and domestic spending but that "it is possible to spend abroad and at home at the same time if you do something that's very unpopular--and that's raise taxes...
Roger J. Landry '92, a member of thePeninsula Council, said that in hisinterview with Manifold he talked about thedifficulty of publishing a magazine that presentsan unpopular viewpoint at Harvard...
Lukin has also said that Russian President Boris Yeltsin may need to cut his ties with the increasingly unpopular government, according to Lloyd...
...change that and failed (critics say he did not make anywhere near the effort required). Characteristically, though, he adds, "What I've tried to do is to promote tax reform but also to give people what they wanted." Arkansas polls have consistently shown property taxes to be most unpopular, income taxes second, sales taxes the least hated...
That time is far back, of course. America, in its eager embrace of the new, industrialized and academized the idea of avant-garde production so long ago that the notion of an unpopular, provincial Modernism seems remote. But 60 years ago it was very much a fact. In 1932 a New York critic urged the Metropolitan to buy a Davis, suggesting that it should hang on "the landings of the stairways, or possibly the Tea Room" -- obviously not in the main galleries, where the main...