Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electoral government is on serious trial," he said. He worries particularly about the fact that we in the U.S. are making politics a life time career. The search for "electoral immortality," he calls it. "Those in Congress know the causes of inflation," he insisted, "but the solutions are unpopular politically. They vote for reelection, not what helps the nation...
...comparisons are to be made between Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter, it can be said that both were businessmen, Christians and unpopular in polls. Truman gets more popular and more quotable each year among people who didn't vote for him or wouldn't have...
Until recently, Giscard was able to stay regally above the political fray, letting Barre run the country on a day-to-day basis and, conveniently, leaving him to take the heat for unpopular decisions. But now, says Jeanne Labrousse, director of the polling institute I.F.O.P.: "We have reached the point where discontent is so high that Barre cannot absorb it all himself." According to Jacques Attali, a leading Socialist economist, the reason is that Giscard and Barre can no longer promise light at the end of the austerity tunnel. Says Attali: "The French are losing hope." According to a survey...
...issue noted, "we had hoped for a miracle -that he wouldn't say anything." The Pope chose to delve into these controversies, in part, because he was under heavy pressure from the majority of American bishops to lend his popularity and publicity to their attempt to back unpopular church teachings...
...Marvin Zindler of Houston's Channel 13 Eyewitness News. He operated, and continues to operate, a consumer hotline, investigating complainsts called in by viewers. One such complaint was the existence of the Chicken Ranch. Mr. Zindler is famous for his incredibly theatrical news reports, and he became extremely unpopular with the residents of Lagrange. With this in mind, I find it difficult to understand how Mr. Grafstein can label Melvin P. Thorpe an "overworked stereotype." Further, the comparison of Thorpe to Dan Rather or the Rev. Billy Sol Hargas only betrays the reviewer's ignorance of these facts. The strength...