Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calmer days when time has made the tragic and the grotesque at least bearable." These words indicated Bradlee's healthy disrespect for historians. After all, they are predators to trade. They pick and chew over great lives and great events. As time passes, the pendulum swings and historical opinion changes...
...have to be careful to distinguish between a referendum and an opinion poll," assembly representative Natasha Pearl '82 said yesterday. "We have to frame the questions so that the answers indicate an action to take," she added...
...computer has changed not only the way politicians campaign but also the way they raise money. Incumbents often keep detailed lists on their own computers and can send mailings to constituents who feel strongly about one issue. Detailed opinion polls subjected to computer analysis enable challengers to find their opponents' weaknesses and plan their own stands accordingly. Democrat Alex Seith did that in Illinois, and then ran as more conservative than Republican Moderate Senator Charles Percy. He might have beaten Percy except for last-minute reaction to some of his tactics, such as a radio advertisement implying that Percy...
...main obstacle is finding the right language for the thorniest problem of all: the "linkage" between the treaty and further negotiations toward a wider peace between Israel and its other Arab neighbors. In the opinion of U.S. diplomats, the negotiators have actually had an agreement on a linkage formula for at least two weeks, but things seem to come unstuck when the delegations return home to seek the approval of their governments. Two weeks ago, for example, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, who was on a visit to the U.S. and Canada, sent Defense Minister Ezer Weizman back to Jerusalem...
Though public opinion polls show that an overwhelming 75% of the country's people favor restrictions on the growth of private consumption over the next two or three years, labor is already bucking the wage guidelines. The liquor deliverers, who are demanding a 15.6% pay raise, have begun a strike that presents aquavit-loving Norwegians with the sobering prospect that their country may have its first dry Christmas since prohibition ended in 1927. Whether or not that happens, Norwegians caught in the freeze can take at least some solace from the fact that King Olav V's annual stipend...