Word: unpopularity
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...crop supports were unrealistic and inflationary. She told women's groups that she favored the Equal Rights Amendment but was against extending the time limit for its ratification. She told teachers' groups that she opposed a separate U.S. Department of Education. She supported the Panama Canal treaties, which were unpopular in Kansas. Speaking from her experience as a former aide to retiring Kansas Senator James Pearson, she contends that the Senate is a bloated "bureaucracy in itself," loaded with too many staff people who isolate Senators from their constituents...
...LATEST OUTBREAK of salmonella at Kirkland House last Friday forced University officials to take a number of steps to stop the infection from spreading, including the unpopular move of banning all interhouse dining. University Health Services administrators' recent decision to lift the interhouse ban tomorrow indicates they believe the threat of infection is past, just days after they emphasized the possible dangers of widespread salmonella infection...
...people who joined the Marines in the past two years have been discharged for reasons, ranging from medical disabilities to drug abuse, that should have disqualified them at the time of their enlistment. Congress could solve the problem by bringing back the draft, but this would be highly unpopular and is unlikely...
...like Social Security, things like Medicaid. This is a pattern I think the state of South Carolina has outgrown." Even at the cost of votes, Ravenel has come out in favor of the Panama Canal treaties and the Senate version of the Labor Law Reform bill, which is highly unpopular among most South Carolina voters because they believe it would promote unionization of the state's textile and other industries. But on fiscal matters he is more attuned to the Deep South voters: he proposes freezing federal spending for two years at current levels, which he says would allow...
...circulates on the University of California's Riverside campus. They signal a serious trend. College teaching is a beleaguered profession these days. In many colleges, enrollment is down drastically. Universities are in financial trouble. Any department's funding is determined by the number of students taking its courses, and unpopular departments are threatened with reduced budgets, dismissal of untenured professors, a cut in office space. Professors, courses and even whole departments are fighting for their existence. At Riverside, where enrollment is down from 6,250 students in 1971 to 4,800, more than 40 teaching positions have been eliminated, most...