Word: unpopularity
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Resource allocation and official public statements have identified our strategic interests in Central America and the Caribbean with the fate of a relatively weak, unpopular and internationally isolated regime...
...limits of what we can pay," said Simone Veil, former French Health Minister before her election last year as President of the European Parliament. "European ministers know the problem full well, but they have not started to alert public opinion." The reluctance to bear such unpopular tidings is politically understandable. Among voters, the hunger for ever more social programs has become a virtual addiction. New generations of Western Europeans take for granted the benefits they have inherited-and demand more. It was easy enough for governments to comply during an era of rapid growth, when rising welfare costs were absorbed...
Washington University's Murray Weidenbaum, an adviser to Reagan during the presidential campaign, insisted that the new Administration recognizes that its budget will be controversial and involve some unpopular cutbacks in spending. Said he: "This is not going to be a painless solution. Reagan is trying to avoid the stop-and-go policies that have characterized preceding Administrations, both Republican and Democrat, and hence fight unemployment and inflation simultaneously...
...friend says that Stockman, as Reagan's chief budget cutter, is resigned to being the "most unpopular man in Washington for the next few years." His manner is sometimes aloof and abrasive, but even critics admire his ability to marshal facts quickly and wield them to deadly effect during debates...
...Dick Tracy jaw, for example, or the treatment of constant drooling by a deformed inmate who could not close his mouth. But as Bear and Joy told a conference of their colleagues in San Francisco, these operations often pay dividends for society. Joy points with pride to a once unpopular prisoner at Virginia State Penitentiary, an antisocial murderer who, after surgery to correct a grossly protruding jaw, finally won the friendship of fellow inmates...