Word: unpopularity
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Chamorro is certain she can suture Nicaragua's self-inflicted wounds. Abolishing the unpopular military draft will be the first step. She must also rein in Godoy, whose statements during the campaign suggested that settling old scores might be the new government's top priority. At her first press conference, the President-elect made a point of fielding tough questions herself and praising Ortega for his concession of defeat...
HARVARD-RADCLIFFE RAZA sometimes becomes fearful of dissent within its ranks and intolerant of those who voice unpopular or controversial views. Members of the Mexican-American student group sometimes stop talking to dissenters and instead talk about them in widespread innuendo. As surely as if it were coming from a group of children on a playground, this sort of collective tantrum is intended to show that the organization will "play no more" with those who rock the communal boat. It also aims to make campus life uncomfortable for others who are content with the racial status...
Despite George Bush's continued attempts to tarnish the image of the "card-carrying" member of the ACLU, civil rights groups across the country continue their efforts to ensure the protection of constitutional rights in even the most unpopular cases...
...Workers World Party (WWP), for example, now finds itself in the highly unpopular position of opposing reform and democratization on the continent...
...series of incidents in which controversial speeches had to be cancelled because of unruly protests, the University charged a committee led by Professor of Government Joseph S. Nye, Jr., with developing a way to balance the right of demonstrators to peacefully protest with the right of an unpopular speaker to be heard--"to inform students of the acceptable limits of protest," reads the committee's report...