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Word: opinionating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around his father," apparently unsure of his standing. Not so, the son insists: "In the campaign, he and I attained a new level of friendship." Then, in a tone sounding more conjectural than convinced, he adds, "I know there were times -- I could just tell -- when he respected my opinion." But he had to guess when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Junior Is His Own Bush Now: GEORGE W. BUSH | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Labor's decision to delay the Central Committee vote until perhaps early August was viewed as an attempt to seek reconciliation. Labor's reluctance to leave the government is not surprising; a recent opinion poll indicates that a new election would result in victory for Likud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Why Is This Man So Glum? | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

Surprisingly, the insistence on victory comes from both ideological poles, but for very different reasons. On the right, the unstated premise is simply put: no more intifadeh, no more need for peace. Even the downside is welcomed. Given the undisputed hardening of opinion -- especially among those Israelis and Palestinians who have reached their majority since Israel took the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 -- failing to resolve the matter peacefully now will almost inevitably lead to another region-wide Arab-Israeli war. "Which we would win," says an aide to Ariel Sharon confidently. "And then we will be that much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why Israel Needs a Gentle Intifadeh Victory | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...think the time has come for us to determine with as much accuracy as we can what the powers of the Legislature [and] the governor are on these conditional vetoes," Keverian said. "I don't see it as a crisis so much as a difference of opinion...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Cambridge Officials Prepare For Life Without State Aid | 7/21/1989 | See Source »

Even the Justices found it impossible to discuss abortion with their usual comity. Justice Harry A. Blackmun, author of the Roe opinion, attacked the majority in Webster for cowardice, deception, disingenuousness and brute force. The ruling, he bristled, invites the states to pass restrictive laws % and "is filled with winks, and nods, and knowing glances to those who would do away with Roe explicitly." No less angry, Justice Scalia wrote that Justice O'Connor's reasons for refusing to reconsider Roe "cannot be taken seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle over Abortion | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

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