Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thirty-eight per cent support the Core Curriculum, while 29 per cent oppose it and 33 per cent did not express an opinion...
...index of a new Chinese sensitivity to foreign opinion that in November the People's Daily in Peking ran a full page of five articles outlining human rights criticisms and urging that new civ il and criminal codes be adopted to protect those rights. "In some places," said the People's Daily, "the legal rights and interests of citizens are badly infringed. Rations are cut. Private property is tak en away, rural markets are closed down, and legal economic activities are not guaranteed. All of these things can still happen...
...meetings with the region's leaders and opinion makers, McGovern mostly listened. But when Rhodesia's Prime Minister, Ian Smith, asked McGovern what he would do to solve Rhodesia's problems, McGovern had a succinct answer: "Resign." Yet at a dinner party in Johannesburg, he startled his South African hosts by indicating that Smith's government in Rhodesia, if it continues to move toward an "all parties" conference of local leaders and carries through with a promised one-man, one-vote national election next spring with "credible" international observers, could expect the U.S. Senate to repeal the economic embargo imposed...
...Yvonne Elliman calls him "the man with the golden ears -the best in the business at picking singles." Coury says, "I don't tell big artists like the Bee Gees or Eric Clapton what has to go on their albums, but they ask me and I give them my opinion...
...error. The most President Carter will concede is that real G.N.P. growth next year may fall below his official target of 3%. The Administration script calls for a "soft landing"-two or three quarters in which output gains are small but nonetheless real. High interest rates, in the opinion of Carter's advisers, no longer bite down as hard on business activity as they once did, and so far there are no signs of the imbalances, like a pile-up of inventories, that usually precede a slump...