Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a public opinion institute conducted a snap poll of more than 2,000 West Germans for their reaction to Rust's flight, 79% said they were "tickled" by the exploit. West German officials were considerably more somber. At week's end, said an aide to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the government had not received "so much as a police blotter" report from the Soviet Union about the incident. Officials were worried not only about the fate of Rust but also about the impact of his stunt on Soviet-West German relations. One senior Bonn diplomat called the timing of Rust...
...been linked by a Leeds University research center to the growing role of television in election campaigns. Moreover, Britons seem less inclined to follow a traditional pattern of voting along class lines, and they now have three rather than two major parties from which to choose. Perhaps not surprisingly, opinion polls show Thatcher to be both the most respected and the least liked of the main party leaders. While supporters regard the Prime Minister with something approaching awe, opponents like to caricature her as a hectoring nanny or, worse, a leader insensitive to the needs of the poor...
...Boland amendment apply to the National Security Council? The White House contends that the NSC does not fit the definition of an "entity engaged in intelligence activities." A secret opinion by the President's Intelligence Oversight Board took this approach in 1985. Former Watergate Prosecutor Philip Lacovara agrees that if Congress intended the amendment to apply to "other than those persons connected with official intelligence agencies, it could and should have said so." But many experts agree with Tribe that NSC officials were clearly "acting as intelligence agents." Even Robert McFarlane testified that it was his "common-sense judgment" that...
...final battleground, however, may be the courts. Opponents of the measure already have at least three lawsuits in the works. The Florida State Supreme Court, in an unusual move, has agreed to send an advisory opinion to the Governor's office on the state constitutionality of the levy before the measure officially goes into effect on July...
...these days the eyes water like a weak opinion, and the skin on her hand < feels like pie dough rolled on an enamel tabletop. (Let me give you a hand, Mom.) A Whistler pose, she is content to sit staring outward much of the time, as if on the deck of a Cunard liner, or to dip into that biography of Abigail Adams you gave her (a lady for a lady), at manageable intervals. Television interests her not, except occasionally the nature shows that PBS specializes in. Motionless before the mating eland. The memory clicks on and off. The older...