21.   Premier Romano Prodi avoided unpopular measures such as hiking taxes on fuel, relying instead on a wide mix of deficit-cutting programs.

22.   Primakov warns of unpopular measures.

23.   Since the revolution, the clergy has been careful of when to back down over unpopular measures.

24.   Sheik Saad called on Parliament to cooperate with the government and pass the proposed reform laws, which come with with unpopular measures.

25.   That price includes layoffs, salary freezes, higher taxes and other unpopular measures.

26.   The difficulty, however, of pushing through such unpopular measures at election time has become increasingly evident as Cardoso repeatedly put off announcing his belt-tightening package.

27.   The higher tax needs approval from Congress, which appears unlikely to pass the unpopular measure only a month and a half before general elections.

28.   The proposed cuts include highly unpopular measures, such as wage freezes for millions of public employees.

29.   Whoever wins the election will need to impose unpopular measures for Romania to win more investment and foreign loans.

30.   Zedillo exhorted citizens on Sunday to accept unpopular measures, including holding down minimum wage increases, as necessary to avert greater catastrophe.