Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critical question is how public opinion will respond in Western Europe. If the U.S. is ultimately viewed as an obstacle to nuclear sanity, the result could be disarray in the alliance and strong pressure to make concessions. The Administration is trying to keep the Allies in line by dangling lucrative defense contracts for SDI research. Last week the U.S. appeared to be close to signing agreements with the British and West Germans to clear the way for such research...
ALTHOUGH THE MAJORITY opinion correctly condemns any legislation banning the sale or printing of pornography, it incorrectly attacks the Cambridge City Council for not allowing their constituents to vote on the issue...
...inappropriate because it violates the sacred and limited mission of the University. It would be inappropriate because institutions of higher education should not use their power to impose political and economic views on organizations and individuals beyond the campus. It would be inappropriate because it would threaten freedom of opinion within the University while exposing Harvard to coercion from without. It would be inappropriate because it would violate the trust of Harvard's benefactors, incurring financial loss and diverting University funds from their intended, rightful purpose...
...Official opinion continues to vacillate. Deng has declared that talk of capitalism "cannot harm us," but he has also cautioned that China must "combat the corrosive influence of capitalist ideas." At one point, the People's Daily pronounced that the world had changed so much since the days of Marx and Lenin that "we cannot expect (their) works to solve our present-day problems." A few days later, following angry and anxious cries that the paper had renounced the country's very ideology, the People's Daily backpedaled. It had meant to say, it explained in a retraction, only that...
...future CUE Guides are truly to reflect student opinion, then the books must be run with minimal official interference. Anything more--in particular scare tactics which amount to censorship--defeats the Guide's purpose. But if administrators again want to hide Harvard from its own shadow, cancellation seems the only realistic alternative. It would certainly be the only honest...