Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Graduate School of Arts and Science's student government has asked its 2400 students to cast ballots this week and next to gauge student opinion on whether to abolish the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...
...Nicaragua is not a society open to opinion polls, it is hard to gauge where most of the 3 million citizens stand in the polarized debate. Dispassionate observers estimate that 15% are hard-core Sandinistas, 15% are militant opponents, and the rest, much like the U.S. Congressmen whose vote last week could have swung either way, blow with the prevailing winds. Although discontent has risen palpably since last October, when the government reimposed a state of emergency, the crackdown on civil liberties has not produced a significant rise in support for either the contras or the opposition parties. Most Nicaraguans...
...large that death in America is too often controlled by machines rather than nature. In a sharp departure from the past, when most Americans died at home, an estimated 80% now die in hospitals or nursing homes, often surrounded by a thicket of tubes and life-extending apparatus. Public opinion surveys suggest that most Americans fear and oppose this invasion of one of life's most private moments. Last year a Louis Harris poll of 1,254 adults found that 85% thought a terminally ill patient "ought to be able to tell his doctor to let him die"; 82% supported...
...water pitcher." Granny benefits from such care, says Dickey, a family practitioner in Richmond, Texas, but "the comatose patient derives no comfort, no improvement, no hope of improvement." Both doctors hasten to point out that physicians who disagree with this view are free to follow their conscience. The council opinion is in no way binding...
EVEN WHEN MY opinion is not absolutely rejected, I cannot place my desires on the same moral plane as women can. As Weiss notes, "The qualities the women had brought to the [negotiating] table--sincerity, an emotional intensity about sexual issues--were somehow not available to men." Making an appealing case for male desire is hard when sex is dirty...