Word: unpopularity
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...that the U.S. was in a recession. When he became president, however, he was forced to think about the matter a little more carefully, and he grudgingly came to admit the existence of economic difficulties. President Ford then proposed a tax increase as our panacea, but when that proved unpopular he decided to look for another scheme. Now Mr. Ford has pulled together a new package, in what The New York Times calls "a 179 degree turn in economic policy." Instead of a tax increase, he now suggests a tax rebate of $12.2 billion which, combined with a regressive fuel...
Mishra, in fact, was easily the most unpopular man in the Indian government-not only because of the corruption charges, but also because he had successfully used strong-arm measures last year in breaking a national rail strike. At week's end, a crowd of government employees in New Delhi initially refused to express formal grief at the news of Mishra's death. Only after the main speaker, Jayaprakash Narayan himself, remonstrated with the group and declared that "no sane person can tolerate" such acts of terrorism did the audience reluctantly support the traditional resolution of condolence...
...Administrative Council that now rules the country gave promise of democratic reform. Today, after months of mismanagement and unrest, the council-known locally as the Dergue (meaning "shadow" in Amharic, Ethiopia's official language) because most of its members are unknown to the public-is at least as unpopular as the Emperor...
Ford refused to sign the bill after arguing that it would have hampered domestic coal production "when the nation can ill afford significant losses from this critical energy source." Though his veto was anticipated, it is sure to be unpopular. The strip-mining bill was supported by environmentalists, Ford's own Interior Department, the AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers, United Auto Workers and farm and ranch organizations. It was even backed by a few big coal companies that were anxious to have some law-any law-enacted to clear up the uncertainty that has clouded their future...
...that matter, consider Ford him self in the matter of pardoning Former President Richard Nixon. He knew it would be an unpopular act, and even when he found just how unpopular, he still defended it before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the right thing to do in his judgment for the best interests of the nation - something he would even do again. Whatever the merits of the pardon, in that case his perception of his leadership duty and his role as President was exactly right. As Woodrow Wilson put it: "A President whom [the country] trusts can not only lead...