Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, opinion polls showed that while 66% of the French approved of Gorbachev, a little more than half believed he would not survive long in office. Gorbachev dismissed any notion he might soon disappear from the scene, but his practiced joviality slipped occasionally to reveal an inner tenseness, perhaps as a result of the mounting challenges to his authority at home. Gorbachev's schedule was arranged so that he could keep in close touch with Moscow...
...conservative dissent, which would have allowed the creche, was written by Kennedy, 52, the court's newest member. Kennedy contended that the majority ruling by Harry Blackmun, and in effect a whole train of Supreme Court decisions, "reflects an unjustified hostility toward religion." In his opinion, Kennedy proposed that the court apply two new tests to determine the constitutionality of links between the government and religion. First, Kennedy wrote, "government may not coerce anyone to support or participate in any religion or its exercise." Second, the court should outlaw only those "direct benefits" that tend to create a state religion...
...opinion, a conservative plurality of three members, joined in part by Reagan appointees Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor, suggested that as early as next year the court may overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established the right to terminate a pregnancy. A Missouri law banning the use of state facilities and prohibiting state employees from performing abortions was upheld on the ground that it "leaves a pregnant woman with the same choices as if the State had chosen not to operate any public hospitals at all." Another provision, requiring physicians to perform tests to determine...
...NATIONAL opinion polls consistently demonstrate that a majority of Americans are pro-choice; that is, they favor a legal right to abortion, perhaps with some restrictions. But the emotional rallies, the fights, the sharply divided groups from East to West prove that the issue was not adequately settled by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that first established a constitutional right to abortion...
...Natalya just had an opinion on everything--you know, `I think this, or I think that,'" Rinella said. "She's a very spirited young woman...