Word: unpopularity
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...best in the best of times, and in this election year most Congressmen shrink from such a mandate like the plague. It heaps too much responsibility on their shoulders, forces them to step out ahead of the people and commit themselves to a position that could later prove disastrously unpopular. What they would like to do is wait until public opinion crystallizes and they have unequivocal marching orders. The production of fresh evidence in the months ahead before the vote could provide those orders. In the meantime, no one wants to act precipitately on impeachment. Polls of House members show...
...efforts in this study are an unpopular cuase, but we must be involved in many unpopular causes. We must deal with violence in the prisons if we are to make progress in prison reform. We cannot greet every effort to deal directly with violent behavior with emotional attacks. We cannot be against all efforts to change things in the prison system. We are advocating change, change which recognizes and deals with these serious problems in the current system of correction. William J. Curran...
...what could be a long climb. Between 1968 and 1973, the average U.S. price of nickel went from 940 per Ib. to $1.53, tin from $1.48 to $2.20 and copper from 420 to 590. In addition, the U.S., in part because of its wealth and power, is unpopular in some Third World nations. With demand for minerals strong, several countries conceivably could reduce exports to the U.S. and find eager buyers to take its place...
...this second, concluding volume of Bevan, Author Foot acknowledges that Nye was by conventional reckoning a failed man. The main reason he never made it from a dirt-floored cottage to No. 10 Downing Street was not his reckless invective but a stubborn insistence on such highly unpopular policies as Britain's retention of its own nuclear deterrent. "We should not," said Nye in one of his most famed declarations, "go naked into the conference chamber." Though he and Jennie Lee, his tough Scottish wife and fellow M.P., seldom lacked caviar or claret, Bevan railed eloquently against...
...perhaps the most versatile heavyweight who ever pulled on a pair of padded gloves, the passage into the dusk of his fighting career must be a particularly bitter one. Robbed of three productive years in his fighting prime for embracing unpopular political beliefs, Ali, since re-emerging into the harsh glare of center ring, is no longer the lightning quick and powerful fighter who was banished for prophetically asserting that as an American, he "had no quarrel with them Viet Cong." As penalty for this vision, which he could claim long before it came into vogue, Ali was stripped...