Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defeat on the Communists, who "did not hesitate to add their unceasing and violent attacks [against the Socialists] to those of the right." Later, in a closed session of his party's executive committee, he declared: "We did not obtain as many votes as the public opinion polls had predicted because Georges Marchais frightened the undecided voters who were getting ready to cast their ballots for us. They asked themselves how we could govern with the Communists...
...made him a difficult friend is a fact well documented. There was, of course. Fitzgerald's wife Zelda, who hated Hemingway. He. in return, contended that she had ruined her husband's talent with her jealousy. Writing to Editor Perkins in 1933. Hemingway was of the callous opinion that Fitzgerald's salvation lay in Zelda's death or a stomach ailment that would prevent his drinking...
Meanwhile, analysts were sifting through the first-round results for clues of why the outcome, to everybody's surprise, showed the left to be in perilous trouble. Many pointed to the false expectations generated by France's public opinion polls. For more than a year, they had consistently predicted that the leftist coalition plus the ultras would win 50% to 52% of the popular vote as against 45% for the combined center-right parties. But the left coalition actually trailed the center-right...
...present (which is most of them), the main topic of fretful conversation these days is inflation. It is a strong tide that may momentarily ebb with an occasional optimistic statistic, only to rise again when new reports are issued. Echoing almost all the experts, as well as the public opinion polls. Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller told the Senate Budget Committee last week that inflation is the nation's No. 1 economic problem. He also warned that it is growing worse...
With a final vote on the core possibly as soon as next month's Faculty meeting, those polled appeared sharply split on the issue. One hundred of the 198 respondents who had an opinion said they do not plan to vote for the core in its current form...