Word: unpopularity
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...California, then bravely managed his disastrous 1962 campaign. One of the most formidable members of Nixon's palace guard, Haldeman wields enormous power, passing along presidential orders and ideas to the rest of the staff. His humorlessness and determination to protect the President from outsiders have made him unpopular with Congress...
...plainly been troubled in recent months by soaring food prices, hard-currency shortages, student unrest and a variety of other annoying domestic problems. In the circumstances, it was no surprise that Sadat decided to remove Premier Sidky. What was surprising was Sadat's decision to take on the unpopular job himself. "It's a strange move for such a shrewd politician as Sadat," mused a high-ranking U.S. State Department official. Washington sees one possible explanation: President Sadat is not prepared to serve as Premier for long but is determined to shake up his government's ponderous...
...port at Misurata; Italians for road building; Britons for a new airport at Tripoli; Egyptians to advise his ministries, run his courts and train his 22,000-man army; and, of course, Americans to pump oil. The Egyptians, who have always been arrogant and patronizing toward Libyans, are as unpopular as ever -and there are now 220,000 of them in the country. But nobody is as unpopular at the moment as the Americans. When a Libyan student asked Gaddafi this month why he did not throw the Americans out of Libya, the colonel replied, 'Nothing would please...
...joint libraries, special interdisciplinary programs, research centers, area studies, and joint degree programs have partially undermined this usefulness. The subordination of departments to another center of power may carry some disadvantages. The departments can hardly be defined as bulwarks for academic freedom: their record for embracing the unorthodox and unpopular has been too poor for that. And with two professors sitting on the Harvard Corporation another center for that defense seems to exist...
...Institute of Politics and former president of the Police Foundation in Washington, said, "The existing laws put everybody in an untenable position." He said they are particularly unfair to the police, and that the legislature must act to "take out of the policeman's mind what is popular and unpopular...