Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong it tribute Local 26's notorious weak on the shop floor to any Phenomenon of working class Tory it's because the union seems its representing someone besides them media, the public. And that dangerous game for the unions to what happens when the boss decide brave public opinion--and couldn't he, they do it all the time--if the union can live up to its speech and promises? Perhaps it same labor leaders who were proper of a brave new left negotiate sweeping concession just those familiar, corrupt bureaucrats the post have done. Perhaps they...
First, the majority opinion completely ignores Harvard's primary role in society. The University exists to further education and research. Complete, blind divestiture would harm this basic mandate in two ways. It would entail certain short-term and near-certain long-term damage to Harvard's endowment, a source of anywhere from 11 to 42 percent of the yearly budgets of Harvard's 10 faculties. In addition, such diminished financial security would go hand in hand with diminished intellectual autonomy. Divestiture would expose the University to exactly the same kind of sanctions from donors and other supporters (primarily the federal...
...majority opinion even fails morally, notwithstanding its contention that morality must be the only guide in this issue. Consider the two arguments at the heart of the divestiture argument: a) that Harvard can send a moral signal to the nation and the world conveying the fact that pressure, through disinvestment, on South Africa will further the lots and aspirations of the oppressed majority in that country, and/or b) that Harvard's divestment in and of itself will have the practical effect of directly harming the apartheid regime through loss of capital...
LAST WEEK, The Crimson reversed its majority opinion on the issue of divestiture, after more than 10 years. Today, The Crimson reverses its position again, after one week. Each time a majority opinion was reached democratically, according to standard procedure, each member of The Crimson holding one vote...
...issue, its seems, is doing so half heatedly. No one is "slightly in labor of total divestiture," not are people "learning towards the idea of intensive dialogue." I motions run deep in any debate about a regime as oppressive and heinous as South Africa's; as today's majority opinion asserts, there is some ground on which ardent supporters of any particular practical measures or moral statement can agree...