Word: unpopularly
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...governments now hope that the Irish vote will lead to a positive result in a French referendum to be held in the fall. But nothing is certain in France, where voters could well use Maastricht to rebuke the increasingly unpopular President Francois Mitterrand. Eventually, all 12 E.C. members, Denmark included, must ratify the treaty before it can take force...
...Uzbekistan. Yeltsin denounced the charge as "a big campaign to discredit the President, reform and authority." Still, he possesses one quality of leadership that sets him apart from Gorbachev: he is courageous and confident enough of his mandate as Russia's first democratically elected President to take the unpopular measures necessary to bring about radical change...
...having anywhere near his influence, Arafat's death would almost certainly bring disunity. Among those mentioned as possible heirs is Farouk Kaddoumi, the P.L.O.'s de facto foreign minister. Kaddoumi, one of the founders of the mainstream Fatah faction, considered a hard-liner, has international stature, but he is unpopular among many of his P.L.O. colleagues, in part because of his arrogant demeanor...
...library, many say, would be a bandaid rather than a cure--and an inadequate bandaid, at that. Indeed, when Pusey Library was built in the early 1970s, it was filled nearly immediately, and had to incorporate unpopular storage techniques like movable stacks...
Unquestionably, he is an agent of change. Andagents of change are often unpopular. "De Gennarois not universally loved, but that's inevitable,isn't it?" Carpenter says...