Word: opinionating
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Harvard has started recruiting clerical workers with advertisements on MBTA subways, a move Steiner calls the product of a tight Boston labor market and not a high turnover rate. In conjunction with an independent opinion research company, the University in April sent a 27-page survey to clerical and technical workers querying attitudes on issues like wages, sexual harrassment and Massachusetts Hall administrators. Harvard officials say the poll was an effort to improve working conditions, but union organizers quickly called it a tool to test the degree of their activity among workers. A chief UAW beef is the absence...
Moreover, from recent polls and interviews, it appears unlikely that the current divestment movement has as large a constituency as the movements of the early and late sixties. A recent Crimson poll found a wide divergence of opinion on the issue of Harvard's investment policy, with only a third of the students polled, favoring complete divestment by Harvard of its South Africa-related companies...
...need for reform. There is a genuine lack of respect out there for the tax system. That translates, in our opinion, to a genuine lack of respect for Government generally. And I think if we can cure the former, we have some chance of increasing respect for Government...
...refusal to approve $14 million in contra aid. Their argument is that Hondurans are questioning why they should risk their own security if the U.S. Congress is not willing to support the anti-Sandinista cause. A Honduran government official declared that his country is "paying for the difference of opinion between the President and Congress...
...book publishers and authors won the final encounter last week when the U.S. Supreme Court held 6 to 3 that the Nation magazine had committed publishing "piracy" by quoting too liberally from a "purloined" copy of Gerald Ford's memoirs, A Time to Heal. But the majority opinion, written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, was so narrowly drawn that even many of those who had sided with the Nation were not seriously upset. "There is always a natural tension between the First Amendment and copyright law," said Bruce Sanford, general counsel for the Society of Professional Journalists, "and this...