Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curriculum they inferred that about 30 core courses, each with an enrollment of approximately 200 students, would be created--a contention several authors of the core's report immediately denied. Nevertheless, students, professors and administrators should be aware of the specifics of the Gen Ed revisions before forming an opinion...
...Jimmy Carter get reelected? Writing in Public Opinion, a new bi-monthly published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute, noted Psephologists Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg intriguingly argue that if Carter fails to get his White House lease renewed in 1980, the cause may lie not so much in his performance in Washington as in how he got there in the first place...
...left, frustration and disillusionment grew, despite its edge in opinion polls. On the right, last week, there was a faint flicker of hope. At a Paris dinner party, a wealthy baron confided that he had just placed a bet of $10,000 with Ladbrokes, the British bookmakers, on a victory for the present government. The odds: 4 to 5. The left's chances were rated at dead even. The baron explained that he was not counting on any change in voter sentiment. The left would lose, he said, because after the first round of voting, the Communists would refuse...
...four wars that Israel has fought in the past 30 years, remain strong today. Whatever the explanation (sociologists favor such terms as "Holocaust complex," "Massada complex" and, since the 1973 war, "October complex"), there is clearly an acute sense of suspicion and concern at work in Israeli society. Public opinion tends to the extreme and fluctuates wildly. Thus 90% of the Israelis thought during Sadat's November visit that peace with Egypt was possible; now 60% believe there will be another war within ten years. Yet there remains agreement that no risk is worth taking that threatens the country...
...pumped $10 billion worth of aid into Israel, more than half of it in military equipment, including the latest and most sophisticated weapons in the U.S. arsenal. Israel today is 60% stronger than it was in 1973, in terms of armaments, while Egypt is 10% weaker. In the opinion of many U.S. officials, Israel will never be stronger than it is now, and therefore never in a better position to make peace...