Word: unpopularity
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...Unpopular Idea. Painful money issues also absorbed New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne who has labored for months to get the state legislature to approve a state income tax that he says is necessary to finance public education. The income tax is a disastrously unpopular idea in New Jersey. The recession has hit the state especially hard-unemployment is 13%. State revenues have fallen off, and Byrne's projected budget for this year contained a deficit estimated at $384 million...
...economic miracle had run out of steam. Soaring consumer prices led to bloated wage demands and a rash of strikes. Public services were so badly administered that they were cynically called "public disservices." Unemployment rose to 5.7%, a high figure for Italy. Austerity policies at home (including unpopular higher taxes) brought about a dramatic improvement...
...long lines at the gas pump were short-lived. The immediate problem seems not supply but price. Those high prices, in combination with the recession, have al ready appreciably cut into U.S. oil demand. Why make the voters back home suffer, the legislators' reasoning goes, by enacting unpopular measures that might or might not reduce consumption further...
...Brazil and the U.S.; he has also been reported to be still in Buenos Aires or on an air force base near the city. Wherever he was, there was a growing suspicion among Argentines that López Rega simply wanted to put some distance between himself and the unpopular measures the government is trying to impose...
...Sociology Department's junior faculty demanded a voice in hiring of non-tenured department members, and the right to attend and vote in departmental senior faculty meetings. In the History Department, the undergraduate curriculum committee continued its insistence on curriculum reform and the changing of the department's unpopular general examination in comparative history...