Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coerced, the history of official efforts to regulate sex is a long and fairly unhappy one. Both sides invoked it in the sodomy case. "Condemnation of those practices is firmly rooted in Judeo-Christian moral and ethical standards," said Chief Justice Burger in concurring with Justice White's majority opinion. "Homosexual sodomy was a capital crime under Roman law . . ." The same line of argument could presumably be made to support slavery, and Justice Blackmun's dissent offered a spirited rebuke from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: "It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that...
...outlets in the East and Midwest. Following a boycott organized by an affiliate of the N.F.D. in April, Dairy Mart conducted a survey of its patrons in four states, asking whether it should stock magazines like Playboy. The result: 55% said yes, 35% no, and the rest had no opinion...
...Comptroller General is the director of the General Accounting Office, Congress's chief watchdog on federal programs. Though appointed by the President to a 15-year term, he can be removed from office only by Congress. That power of dismissal, wrote outgoing Chief Justice Warren Burger in his final opinion for the court, means that the Comptroller General is "subservient" to Congress and cannot be entrusted with Executive powers. In a vigorous dissent, Justice Byron White criticized the majority's adherence to a "distressingly formalistic view of separation of powers" to derail "one of the most novel and far-reaching...
...hardly surprising that in a land where some basic assumptions of life are changing so quickly, opinion should range from extreme pessimism to cautious optimism. If South Africans of every racial community have one thing in common, it is that they do not really know where their country is heading. Thus there is a shared sense of uncertainty and foreboding. The most hopeful would probably agree with John Kane-Berman, director of the South African Institute of Race Relations, who feels that the whites in general are growing more receptive to the idea of change. Though they are still...
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney last week announced a complete reorganization of his Cabinet. Six ministers were removed, eight were added, and more than a dozen portfolios changed hands. Opposition leaders interpreted the shake-up as a response to public-opinion polls indicating that support for Mulroney's Progressive Conservative Party has dropped dramatically since the 1984 general election...