Word: unpopularity
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...only solution is universal conscription--no exemptions, no deferments. The draft got a bad rap because of its association with an unpopular war, but it remains the best insurance against unjust wars...
...Silber, given mutiple opportunities to raise the level of reasoned discourse, set aside the chance for the sake of political expediency. In the second televised debate, for instance, Silber devoted three of his five turns to drill Weld on his support of the increasingly-unpopular Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT) petition, instead of using the time to challenge his rival on his education plans, his environmental initiatives or his civil rights record. By harping on one issue in order to squeeze all the political juice out of it, Silber insulted voters who were waiting (as he himself claimed...
Republican lawmakers were not so easy to deliver. Many were furious that the President was forcing them to defend an unpopular tax hike with the midterm election only two weeks away. Some suspected Bush of going along with higher taxes to head off an even worse deficit that could endanger his own re- election...
...biggest issue. As the situation was fuzzily sketched by Yeltsin, the Russian Republic has three options: go it alone entirely, with its own army, currency and customs system, which would mean, in effect, secession; enter into some new coalition with Gorbachev that edges out the U.S.S.R.'s most unpopular national leader, cautious Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov; or go ahead with a modified Shatalin program on Nov. 1 and wait for Gorbachev's plan to fail -- an outcome Yeltsin predicted would happen within six months at most. Carrying out Shatalin's full plan in Russia was evidently doomed by Gorbachev...
...anti-incumbent mood largely accounts for the defeat of the deficit- reduction package endorsed by the White House and congressional leaders. Most lawmakers who feel remotely threatened -- as well as every House member attempting to graduate to the Senate -- came out against it. Braver souls who supported the unpopular combination of tax hikes and service cuts are now being savaged for their stand. In Vermont, Republican Peter Smith, a freshman Congressman, is running no better than even against a well-known independent, Bernard Sanders. A former Socialist mayor of Burlington, Sanders has railed for years against establishments of all kinds...