Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest Soviet gambit came with surprising swiftness and adroit timing. It was aimed squarely at public opinion in Western Europe, where the SDI is perceived by some to reduce the chances for arms reductions, just as a battered Reagan was scheduled to arrive there. While not rebuffing Gorbachev's offer outright, the State Department expressed cautious doubts that the proposal went far beyond previous Soviet formulations that the U.S. had found unacceptable. For his part, Reagan at week's end pronounced himself still "very willing" to meet with Gorbachev if, as expected, the Soviet leader attends the opening...
Throughout the book, Adler persistently pulls both modern philosophy and the reader back to immutable human rights and moral responsibilities as defined in classic philosophy. He has no patience with any suggestion that these truths may be simply old opinions. "If philosophy were mere opinion," he writes, "there would be no philosophical mistakes." The fact that his own Great Books program at Britannica is chockablock with the works of Locke, Hume, Darwin and the others is, to Adler, no mistake at all. "It is important to know errors," he says. "A full understanding of truth is to understand the errors...
United will need approval from the Transportation Department and President Reagan before it can fly Pan Am's routes. That regulatory process could take up to eight months. And while their opinion will not count in the final decision, saddened aviation buffs will undoubtedly decry the loss of the Clipper routes that Pan Am possessed...
...Before publishing their report, Muller decided to get a second opinion from the fathers of the impact theory, Luis and Walter Alvarez. Neither conferred his benediction on the hypothetical star, but Walter recommended one way that its existence might be tested. He knew that if comets cyclically pelted the planet, they must have left behind craters in chronologically distinct batches. Water, wind and continental drift have eroded most of the earth's impact craters, but 100 of the largest survive in some form and have been roughly dated. Muller and Walter Alvarez examined the data on 13 of the best...
...separation, or "petty apartheid," but is concerned foremost with stressing the broader significance of apartheid; how the minority white regime has used a theory of racial separation to maintain class domination, transforming the color line into a poverty line as well. And despite superficial reforms aimed at placating international opinion, the captains of apartheid are standing firm behind these policies...