Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago, Alfonsin announced his latest program, which features a new currency and a wage and price freeze. An opinion survey showed that more than 80% of Argentines polled support this ambitious reform. Still, some experts are doubtful that the politically difficult plan will survive...
...more than 3,000 phone calls were placed to a government office that is receiving reports of price violations. A few customers expressed their discontent violently. At one store in the city of Rosario, shoppers attacked clerks who tried to hike prices. Some law-abiding retailers complained that public opinion was turning against them. "We worry about the tone of the price-control operation," said Carlos de la Vega, a spokesman for the Argentine Chamber of Commerce. "People blame...
...with Coke. At wedding receptions, graduation parties, offices, homes and supermarkets, Coke's decision to change for the first time in 99 years the taste of the world's best-selling soft drink has become a universal conversation topic, like the weather or money or love. Everyone has an opinion: some like the new Coke, some hate it, others do not care at all. Some believe Coca-Cola's strategists made the marketing coup of the decade, others call it a monumental blunder...
Caspar Weinberger's opinion was blunt and harsh. Asked how the four suspects in the Walker spy scandal should be punished if found guilty, the Defense Secretary replied, "They should be shot," adding that he supposed "hanging is the preferred method." Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, who introduced a bill to make spying for money punishable by death, was even more draconian. "If there is an execution, it should be public and on television," he said. "I want the widest possible visibility of this kind of crime (to) deter people who may be starting down this road...
...attack came less than a month after nine South African commandos were ambushed, and one captured, during a clandestine foray into Angola. It showed South Africa's determination to continue hitting foreign ANC bases, even in nominally friendly countries like Botswana, in defiance of international opinion. Already angered by the Angola raid, Washington reacted to the Botswana adventure by calling U.S. Ambassador Herman Nickel home for "consultations," a gesture intended to show extreme displeasure. State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb declared that the two incidents raised "the most serious questions" about South Africa's recent actions. The U.S. response, the angriest...