Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There may have been some cold-eyed motives behind Zia's rejection of world opinion and his decision to ignore the Supreme Court's implied suggestion of clemency. Zia and his military supporters took a calculated risk-namely, that the long-term benefits of getting rid of a political nemesis outweighed the immediate law-and-order problem raised by pro-Bhutto demonstrations. Whether or not the generals win their gamble, the execution of this proud but flawed man was a dangerous event for an unstable country with pressing economic problems and a frustrated electorate...
Television makes little enough use of its power to form public opinion, and not just because it is running all those sitcorns. Television in 1948 won the right to 5 editorialize on the air, but, says Paley, "finally we concluded there was no way the network could give editorial opinions on national or international subjects." Why? Because so many of its independently owned affiliates had different political opinions. Paley speaks of "heated arguments" with Ed Murrow, Eric Sevareid and Howard K. Smith about editorializing, which is why your ordinary local late-night radiogabber is a lot freer with his opinions...
...contends first that divestiture is "legally questionable. "But this University has never before made a practice of deferring to the opinion of the attorney general of Oregon on legal questions of such importance. For instance, Harvard filed a friend of the court brief in the Bakke case...
JOHN R. SILBER, president of Boston University (B.U.), is paying dearly for his iniquities. In the eight years he has served as B.U. president, Silber has alienated most of his constituency. He underpaid professors; he usurped the faculty powers of appointment, tenure, and dismissal; he disregarded student opinion entirely and oversaw the censorship of student publications. Students and faculty didn't like it, but until recently they accepted it. Then, this spring, they had enough--the faculty demanded substantial salary increases and more input into decision-making. When the administration balked, the faculty united with clerical workers and librarians...
ATLANTA vs. TORONTO: The Maple Leafs upset the Islanders in a dramatic seven-game quarterfinal matchup last year, and possess Mike Palmateer, in Bruin mentor Don Cherry's opinion the best goalie in the league. Salming, Turnbull and Burrows compose the second-best trio of defensemen in the NHL. The late-season acquisition of Paul Gardner should add punch to an attack that relies almost exclusively upon Sittler and MacDonald...