Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times had in mind the election returns trickling in from provincial assembly elections in overcrowded Java, home of two-thirds of Indonesia's 80 million people. The provincial assemblies are primarily advisory and therefore not very consequential, but as a sampling of the current trend of Indonesian public opinion, the elections were intensely disquieting. In three of Indonesia's biggest cities -Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya-the Communists either won absolute majorities or gained 100% over their 1955 vote. In east and central Java the Reds seemed sure to emerge as the biggest single party, and even in west...
City fathers have no right to force citizens to drink water which any expert opinion considers dangerous, and which any citizens not subject to commitment for insanity strongly object to. People who want to drink fluoridated water are free...
...individual or the public interest. The injunction is the Government's principal means of enforcing more than two dozen federal statutes, including the antitrust laws, the Atomic Energy Act and the Securities Exchange Act. Not one of these 20-odd statutes carries a jury-trial provision, and expert opinion holds that many of them, because of their complexity, would be unenforceable if it took a jury trial to convict a defendant of contempt...
...public response to the idea of the four-day work week, which may be labor's next great clarion call, Gallup pollsters last week found that relatively few Americans want more leisure. Of those questioned, 61% rejected the four-day week (31% say yes, 8% had no opinion). Biggest single occupational group to turn thumbs down on the idea: farmers (76%); manual workers mustered the strongest approval (39%). Fifty-four percent of the nation's men opposed the four-day week. By contrast, 67% of the women voted against it-presumably to keep husbands from getting underfoot...
Even in the freespoken atmosphere of Hyde Park such things are seldom said of a reigning monarch. Appearing last week in a respectable if small journal of opinion, the National and English Review, under the byline of its young editor Lord Altrincham, a peer of the realm and a Tory, they evoked a howl of indignant response all over the nation. "Lord Altrincham's attack is vulgar," cried Lord Beaverbrook's Tory Daily Express. "Being muddleheaded, it is destructive." "Disgraceful," complained the League of Empire Loyalists. "Altrincham ought to be shot," groused the Duke of Argyll...