Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seth Goldman owes his classmates no apologies--the authors of the majority are the ones who ought to say they're sorry for an ill-considered attempt to spoil a Harvard event. The bottom line of the majority opinion is that they wouldn't have chosen him. All that can be said to that is, it's a good thing they were never asked...
...there is a strong current of opinion among specialists that the whole building is hopeless and the only thing to do is raze it and start over again with materials prefabricated in the U.S. "Putting up the building has just got to be a bugger's dream," says one expert. Hal Lipset, a San Francisco private investigator who won fame in the 1960s by concealing a bug in a martini olive, agrees: "The whole building is one big microphone." If that advice is followed, however, the U.S. for many years would have to keep conducting diplomacy in the old building...
...scandals and the intensifying antagonism between the main players in the coalition has been a pervasive national sense of unease. Although there has been little unrest in the streets beyond a sprinkling of student and Arab protests, the malaise is palpable. Says Hanoch Smith, a leading Israeli public opinion pollster: "The crisis of confidence has been brewing for a long time, and it's slowly getting worse...
...also marshaling their strength for the April 6 elections. Egypt's news media have been given unprecedented freedom, and in my wide-ranging discussions I found uniform concern about the nation's economic plight and strong and healthy public and private assessments of Mubarak's administration. Although one private opinion poll shows that more than 80% of the people approve the peace treaty with Israel, many Egyptians feel that without the restraints of this treaty the tragic Israeli invasions of Lebanon would have been much more unlikely. Despite this concern, there is almost unanimous commitment to the idea...
...opinion, it will not serve the cause of peace. We believe we can only get peace by talks between the parties. An international conference will make things worse...