Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Should a premier broadcaster also try to be a major power in the print field? Apparently not in the opinion of Laurence Tisch, who became chief executive of CBS last September and has since been slicing away operations not related to broadcasting. The process accelerated last week, when CBS agreed to sell its magazine group to four division executives for $650 million. Among the 21 CBS titles: Woman's Day, Car and Driver and Stereo Review...
...wrote the 1973 Roe vs. Wade opinion that said women in most circumstances cannot be barred from having abortions...
Blackmun, who received thousands of letters opposing the opinion, which was supported by a 7-2 court vote, seems an unlikely target for the moral outrage many of the messages expressed...
...Raisa road show. He accompanied the Gorbachevs on their first official foreign trip -- to London in 1984 -- and then to Geneva and Reykjavik. The payoff has been measurable. "Look what has been happening in West European attitudes toward the Soviet Union," said a diplomatic specialist on Soviet propaganda. "The opinion polls tell you why Yakovlev was promoted...
...narrow view of free speech he suggested in a 1971 law-review article. At the time, Bork stated that the First Amendment protects only "speech that is explicitly political" and extends no guarantees to literary or scientific creation. On the D.C. federal appeals bench, however, he has written some opinions strongly upholding free-speech rights. He supported the press in a much cited 1984 libel suit against Syndicated Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, proposing that "those who place themselves in a political arena must accept a degree of derogation that others need not." Says Libel Lawyer Bruce Sanford: "There...