Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Times-CBS survey released this month, only 46% feel he is performing well. A Harris-ABC poll puts the approval figure at 43%, though it is up from 36% in March. The Iowa Poll, the most respected in the Midwest, indicates that Carter is in a "public opinion tailspin" that has been gaining momentum in recent months. Those giving him a favorable report plummeted from 80% a year ago to 45% this month, a drop that was exceeded only by Richard Nixon in his last year in office, during the Watergate scandal...
...Services Administration, subject to congressional approval, to release them. By a strong 7-to-2 vote, the court reversed a lower-court decision to release the tapes for public listening. Recognizing the public right to inspect and copy court records, Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., who wrote the majority opinion, acknowledged that the tapes could add to public understanding of Watergate, despite the already widespread dissemination of printed transcripts. But he also noted Nixon's argument that the tapes had been turned over to the special prosecutor for evidence in litigation, not for public titillation...
...said, "We've tried very hard to pay attention to student opinion," but that does "not mean we're necessarily going to agree with particular opinions...
...importance of student opinion depends on the issue, Bok said yesterday, adding "students are only one of a number of constituencies" concerned with Harvard's investment policies. Alumni and faculty, for example, have more stake in the management of the University's endowment, Bok said...
Serge Lang, a Yale mathematics professor, yesterday criticized a wide-ranging survey of university faculty opinion conducted by Seymour M. Lipset, former professor of Government and Social Relations, saying it is "intellectually at the level of a T.V. panel...