Word: unpopularity
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...sure, Bok was a marked improvement over his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28. Pusey left Harvard a controversial and highly unpopular president, notorious for calling in the police to break up a 1969 takeover of University Hall...
...year after the bloody crackdown that silenced China's nascent democracy movement, a divided Communist Party leadership is attempting to stifle dissent while it tries to put the best face on an unpopular regime. Recent decisions to relax the government's two-year-old economic austerity program, lift martial law in Beijing and the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and tone down the ideological decibel level represent a modest victory for the pragmatic approach of retired patriarch Deng Xiaoping over a clutch of veteran hard- liners. Yet Deng, 85, remains locked in a paralyzing succession struggle that precludes...
...communist leadership stifles dissent as it tries to put the best face on an unpopular regime. -- How many really died last June? -- Three lives, then...
...which he says allows more careful and deliberate decision-making--some say it has often subordinated the issues to the process. Many faculty watchers have said that Bok's networks of ad-hoc committees have led to slow progress on junior faculty promotions and reform within departments, while producing unpopular decisions on several tenure decisions both in FAS and Harvard Law School...
...press, too well with the staff." That conviction hardened as Bush watched, with deepening wariness, the performance of his close friend Jim Baker as Ronald Reagan's chief of staff. Baker expertly ingratiated himself with lawmakers, journalists and others, often at the expense of Reagan. He distanced himself from unpopular decisions and took credit for those that worked out well. The pattern, Bush felt, carried over from the Reagan White House to the 1988 campaign...