Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important means by which corporate America has an impact on our political system. Literally billions of dollars are spent each year to "lobby" legislators in Washington and to influence public opinion across the nation. The political activities of this wealthy sector of the American community--big business--cannot help but have a distorting effect on our democratic process. As Senator Kennedy has explained...
...chief reason for the more relaxed policy, in the view of U.S. analysts, is American public opinion. Said a Carter Administration official: "The Kremlin seems to have decided that it wasn't getting anywhere in taking a tough attitude toward the U.S. They still believe that dissidents are traitors, insane or both. But Moscow apparently came to a greater awareness of the liabilities of confrontation on this issue...
...neutron bomb. We did not give enough support to President Carter on the neutron bomb. He was asking for European opinion, and European opinion was: "It is a matter for you." It was not wholly a matter for him. We should have said quite clearly, we believe this is the most effective antitank weapon we can have, and that it would be advisable from the viewpoint of Europe's defense to go ahead with it. He did not get the view in Europe that he was asking for. I think it's a greatpity. I think the Conservative...
...world. Corruption is totally alien to Jane, and she wants to clean it up right away. She's a nun." Says another source: "I have the feeling that she thinks television is a dirty business, period, and she has to save us from ourselves by cleaning house." Another opinion is that her IBM training will be of limited use at NBC. Says a former executive at a TV production company: "Jane Pfeiffer is a virgin who comes out of the structured school. I'm not sure the structured school works in the entertainment business...
...spokesman for the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) said today the agreement "represents a triumph of majority opinion within the Harvard community. Student and Faculty protest has succeeded in altering official University policy." He added, however, the SASC believes the agreement is incomplete because the school will put a plaque in the library. "The Harvard community has made clear that it abhors any public memorials," he said. A spokesman for the Black Students Association declined to comment at this time...