The new laws include such changes, unpopular among business owners, as giving the government more control of the oil industry and allowing expropriation of farmland.

Occasionally unpopular changes are going to have to happen too.

There, endless calls for more study postpone necessary but unpopular changes in policy.

With their semi-independence from government, the agencies are more insulated from political pressures in making unpopular changes like layoffs.

On a campus at which the faculty is sometimes described as difficult and contentious, unpopular changes are likely to face lively challenge.

Since a President isn't a Lone Ranger how in the world can you make some of those unpopular changes?

In Europe the problems have been clear for years, although governments have been slow to enact unpopular changes.

Just how unpopular that change was with union members became starkly clear yesterday.

Another unpopular change was the removal of the voltage converter.

It's easy to look busy on environmental issues; making real, intelligent, unpopular changes is vastly harder.