Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concentrations tend to be self-selective, since students who choose these fields seem willing to make a strong commitments to their field. Case's opinion of her fellow concentrators is that "all the undergraduates are really into what they're doing, really fascinated by the subject...
Dissenting Opinion...
French Interior Minister Pierre Joxe set his jaw and adopted a determined tone. "The terrorists wanted to unsettle public opinion, and they have succeeded," he said. "But they also hope to intimidate the government, and there they will not succeed." Even as Joxe spoke, Paris was a city nearly under siege. A small army of police guarded transportation outlets and other key points. The tightened security was in response to a wave of bombings that had given the French capital a bad case of the jitters. A total of 21 people were injured, eight seriously, in three explosions that rocked...
Despite the changes in the Winter Carnival, however, some students still see it as a celebration of the less tolerant side of Dartmouth. "In my opinion, because of [the Carnival's] focus on tradition and community, to a certain degree it negates the importance of the issues for a lot of people in the Dartmouth community," says senior Michael R. Williams, a DCD member and former president of the Gav Student's Association...
Legislators are often powerless in this three pronged grasp. They need PAC money to run their campaigns and PAC connections to help them with logrolling. The blob's organizational strength pressures congressmen, ever sensitive to popular opinion, into the slimy grasp of its politics. The creature knows its creators' weak spots...