Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high court seemed only to add to the muddle. The cases, one involving Cleveland fire fighters and the other a New York sheet-metal-workers union, were quite different, and the court's rulings were reached by narrow and shifting majorities, as some Justices agreed with parts of one opinion but not others. However, the twin decisions were resoundingly clear on one essential score: six of the court's nine members emphatically rejected the rationale that the Reagan Administration has been urging as the basis for its all-out assault on racial goals and quotas...
...fundamental rights" not enumerated in the Constitution. "Otherwise," wrote White, "the judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority." For years conservatives have attacked judges, particularly Supreme Court Justices, for reading their own moral and political views into the Constitution. White's opinion was an unusually explicit acknowledgment of that criticism by a Justice, and it may portend greater deference by the court to the actions of elected officials...
Moreover, White seems to forget that sodomy laws forbid oral and anal sex between heterosexual couples as well as homosexual ones. In a dissenting opinion, Associate Justice Harry Blackmun scolds White for an "almost obsessive focus on homosexual activity." Of course, this obsession is no small coincidence. There is little chance that a case of heterosexual sodomy would ever make its way to the courts since Americans do not disapprove of sodomy between heterosexuals. We can therefore rest assured that only homosexuals will have their bedrooms raided by local police...
...Pretoria government is trying to keep news of its repression away from world attention precisely because it knows that such accounts can inflame international opinion and increase pressures for more sanctions. Many countries already have a wide range of restrictions on contacts with South Africa, ranging from sporting events to the sale of oil. It was in an atmosphere of protest that the House of Representatives two weeks ago passed a bill calling for a ban on all U.S. trade with South Africa, except for strategic minerals necessary for national defense. In the Senate, a milder bill is expected...
...coal-liquefaction process. Three of its leading exports--gold, platinum and diamonds--are rare and easy to sell. Others, such as chromium and manganese, are in high demand for strategic reasons. Yet it would be wrong to conclude that South Africans are unconcerned by the debate: a recently published opinion survey of the country's whites showed that 71% believe the South African economy is not strong enough to prevent sanctions from hurting...