Word: unpopularity
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...could limit some of the damage done by the misadventure in Iraq. "What [the Bush team] may be stumbling toward is grand strategy by accident, that includes diplomacy, economic muscle, military force and all of your capacity to lead other countries," says a former U.S. ambassador. But can an unpopular, lame-duck President, and a team with such a record of ineptitude, pull it off? "It is still going to be a very bumpy road," he says...
Bush's nervy war on our wrongheaded health-tax subsidy will probably go nowhere, but it's destined to be revived if Democrats get a shot at comprehensive reform after 2008. Even a President as unpopular as Herbert Hoover probably had a good idea or two eventually to steal...
...after all are a grassroots phenomenon that were traditionally read by everyone in society from the lowliest street sweeper to the crowned heads of Europe," says Bellow, the president and editorial director of TNP. "They are the natural form for the expression of ideas, especially those that are marginal, unpopular or against the grain of current moral taste." Not to mention that people increasingly don't have the desire to buy pricey, time-consuming books, a fact that has not escaped the notice of Bellow and Bernstein...
Etchemendy is “extremely good at explaining the reason for decisions that might otherwise be unpopular,” Roberts said. “He gets up in front of Faculty Senate or Cabinet, and says, ‘Here are all the facts. What can we do with this?’ He throws this on the table and lets us know that these decisions are hard...
...political practices is extremely high, as long the trash is picked up on time. And since the mayor himself has been indicted on nothing, he strides on, overseeing everything from public housing and education to the details of an ongoing beautification initiative. It helps that some of his most unpopular moves, like his unilateral decision to demolish a small lakefont airport in 2003 under the cover of night, seem nearly forgotten. Meanwhile, he has accepted blame for not having had a better handle on the rampant job-rigging infractions, in which applicants for city positions who had political connections were...