Word: unpopularity
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...vote was taken as civil servants, perhaps a million strong, went on strike and shouted in the streets for higher wages. A desire to restore damaged French prestige abroad and fear of opening a new political crisis at home forced the deputies to go along with Gaillard's unpopular special powers bill...
Despite riots and bloodshed, Chile's President Carlos Ibanez del Campo (who will visit the U.S. next month) has stuck by the unpopular anti-inflationary course charted by the U.S. economic consulting firm of Klein & Saks (TIME, May 7, 1956). This year, as signs of success multiplied, the program took a terrible blow: the price of copper-source of 30% of all government revenues-fell 35%. New pleas to ease the belt-tightening program poured in, but crusty old (80) Austerocrat Ibanez held firm. Said he: "I am a man without a future. But we need to keep this...
Freshman composition is unpopular at almost every university; Harvard is no exception. Except for the honors sections in General Education A, few regard the course as a stimulating experience. To a large extent, this hostility is inevitable, since Gen Ed A is the only required course at Harvard. Another reason for dissatisfaction is that the subjects assigned matter little to the students. Consequently, papers take progressively less and less of the student's time and attention. The twenty minute paper may indeed be a myth, but it is a myth with enough basis in fact to indicate the average student...
Sour Opinion. Most observers blame the new Tory electoral setbacks on inflation and the unpopular Rent Law. Hailsham, taking office last week, characteristically issued a more sweeping pronouncement: "I believe that public opinion in Britain has never been so sour; the people have lost confidence in democratic life." Old-regimental tie (the Rifle Brigade) awry, he tossed in a few reassurances that he would be "a member of the team" and "a listening post...
...Thailand might prove one for the better-for Thailand as well as for its SEATO allies, including the U.S. Pibul had often been embarrassingly pro-U.S. in his public statements (though his personal newspapers were bitterly anti-American), and because both he and General Phao were personally unpopular with Thailanders, the U.S. has in recent months been sharing their odium. While the new government was settling in, U.S. diplomats would themselves have a welcome chance to start afresh...