Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MASSACHUSETTS Department of Public Welfare still awaits a legal opinion as to exactly when the Massachusetts bill passed by the Legislature will go into effect. As it turns out, Weinburg, a full-time lobbyist for MORAL, and her associates have suspected for a year that the Legislature would pass the bill, which Flynn began working on three years ago. But even if Dukakis's veto had been sustained, poor women could have been hurt more by a compromise bill, because then there would have been no court precedents to overrule it. MORAL went to work at the end of last...
Doing so makes the Administration seem out of step with not only Congress but also general public opinion, especially after the passage of the tax-reducing Jarvis-Gann initiative in California. Says a leading committee staffer on Ways and Means: "Bill Steiger has got a tap root in the ground that's 20 feet long. You might have been able to blast him out six weeks ago, but not now. Where was Carter then?" Complains another Ways and Means official: "Carter has us so confused at this point that the issues are a mess...
...mere 80 books in the past 20 years. His serious studies, like last year's The American Catholic: A Social Portrait (Basic Books, $15), should probably be required reading for anyone who cares about religion in America. But Greeley, a senior study director at the National Opinion Research Center and soon-to-be sociology professor at the University of Arizona, is best known for books, columns and articles that people read simply because they are readable. On practically any topic, Greeley manages to strike some readers as outrageously unfair and others as eminently fair, as left wing and right...
...refusal to give the press unique access comes only four weeks after the court, in Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily, refused to grant journalists any special First Amendment protection from legal police searches. A few weeks before that, Burger declared in an opinion in another case that members of the press generally have no greater free speech rights than nonmembers. All this has convinced some journalists that the court is growing increasingly indifferent to the rights of the press. Says Jack Landau, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "The court feels the press is arrogant and greedy...
...this quality that gives Camus a solar power in times of cant and moral squalor. Unlike his fellow anti-colonialists, Camus was never willing to issue a license to kill. Of rebel atrocities he writes, "The truth, alas, is that part of French opinion vaguely holds that the Arabs have in a way earned the right to slaughter and mutilate, while another part is willing to justify in a way all excesses. To justify himself, each relies on the other's crime. But that is a casuistry of blood, and it strikes me that an intellectual cannot become involved...