Word: unpopularity
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...less than $1 billion, while the nation has $15.5 billion outstanding in foreign loans, many of them coming due soon. The U.S. and the European Economic Community are insisting on tough anti-inflationary policies, including wage restraint, as a precondition for granting more credit. The Italian government fears that unpopular austerity is hardly the way to stave off Communist ambitions to participate in the government...
...understand U.S. involvement with the unpopular FNLA and Unita, it is necessary to understand the overall situation in southern Africa...
...schoolgirl, Wertmuller already had a wholly individual notion of protest. Refused permission to leave the room because the school superintendent was coming for inspection, little Lina waited for his arrival, stood up and relieved herself by her desk. Later, she and a friend plotted revenge on an unpopular teacher by setting him afire as he drowsed. Despite this, her father wanted Lina to become a lawyer and put up fierce resistance when she expressed wishes to take lessons in acting and directing. She graduated from drama school in Rome in 1951 and found work in all sorts of theatrical pursuits...
...leaders are sincere in promoting liberty, such ideas will inevitably "create in workers and militants a new pattern of thought" favorable to democracy. Soares also thinks that keeping Communists in the Portuguese government has usefully served both to split the party and to make it share responsibility for the unpopular austerity measures there...
...coalition depended on Socialist votes in Parliament to give it a majority. As inflation soared and unemployment deepened in Italy-currently more than 1.2 million workers, or about 7% of the labor force-the Socialists found themselves accused of siding with the centrist parties in favor of unpopular deflationary policies. Meanwhile, Italy's Communists, with 179 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, could take comfortable refuge in their role as the leaders of the parliamentary opposition...