Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keeping their distance from the leader of their party, Jimmy Carter, because of his low rating in the polls, though this seems to be changing. An ABC-Harris poll last week gave him a 42% approval rating, up from 30% in August. In Texas, where the President is especially unpopular because of his natural gas bill, Rosalynn made some campaign stops over Labor Day weekend, the first of several appearances scheduled for the First Lady this fall. Cool, poised and unflappable in the wilting Texas heat, she explained that the White House understood why local candidates had to take stands...
...they cannot. After nearly a decade, British public opinion still has failed to swing behind the Common Market; moreover, both Tories and Laborites are still internally divided on the question. With a general election looming in October, even pro-European politicians in Britain were not anxious to promote an unpopular cause. All they had to do was look at the polls. The most recent one showed that a majority of Britons?48% to 43%?favor quitting the Common Market altogether...
...reader" philosophy in relation to its news policy, instead of leaving it on the feature page where it belongs--the one that subscribes to the Rupert Murdoch school, is the one that merits contempt. The paper that realizes that it may actually serve the reader best by running an unpopular story is the one that deserves high praise...
...answer is civil liberties gospel: if you fail to protect even the most odious and unpopular speech, you risk undermining all free speech. Basic to the First Amendment, the lesson is clear enough to the courts, which have struck down Skokie's attempts to keep the Nazis from demonstrating. Last week the Supreme Court refused to stop Nazi picketing planned for this Sunday in Skokie...
...freshmen to the open attitude with which homosexuality is viewed in Adams House. "You can call it liberalism or realism, but such tolerance certainly comes with maturity," the senior adds. Images, however, are often misleading, and stereotypes may destine a House, or a collection of Houses, to remain unpopular among deciding freshmen for many years to come...