Word: unpopularity
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...transfer scarce resources from the military to the civilian economy if he is to improve living conditions at home. By paring the military, Gorbachev aims to free not only investment resources but human resources as well. With public pressure building to reduce or even abandon the Soviet Union's unpopular conscription, Gorbachev said last October that the length of military service may be shortened. Presumably, for each good soldier lost, Moscow hopes to gain a good worker...
...participants are unusually passionate about this rather obscure, unpopular sport filled with strange, hard-to-pronounce European names. "It is combat, and there's romance to it," says Arthur Phillips, the number-one foil fencer on the Crimson...
...handing over the economic throttle to Greenspan by failing to take any tough deficit-reduction measures that might remove the heat from prices and interest rates. The Administration has little real chance to hit the Gramm-Rudman target without a tax increase, which Bush has ruled out, or politically unpopular spending cuts, which the President seems loath to initiate. Bush's strategy of leaving the hard choices to Congress has led so far to budget gridlock. Concedes a senior Administration official: "If Congress accepts our budget, economic growth and inflation and interest rates will take care of themselves...
...single game. Several tribes hire management companies to run their bingo enterprises, and some of these companies, says the FBI, are fronts for organized crime, which skims the profits, leaving a pittance to the Indians. At least the Navajo nation is spared this form of corruption, since bingo is unpopular there; but those looking for a big-money game can always find one on a neighboring reservation...
...Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Modernization has become a hot-button issue in German politics, and Kohl would like to postpone modernizing the weapons until after national elections in December 1990. Already Kohl's Christian Democrats have suffered thrashings in six recent local elections, and his government might not survive an unpopular pledge to accept new nuclear weapons. Bush will try to nudge Kohl into a compromise before the NATO summit this spring...