Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outset, the review focused on complaints that the book had become overly subjective. Critics charged that the book often failed to faithfully reflect student opinion and had come to resemble The Crimson's tongue-in-check Confi-Guide. Several science professors voiced additional objections, complaining that the CUE's general questionnaire did not allow for an accurate assessment of science courses because it focused on reading assignments instead of problem sets and labs...
...White House, under the so far cautious guidance of new Chief of Staff Donald Regan, nervously edged away from Stockman's declaration, though some in the West Wing secretly sympathized with it. The Budget Director, said Press Secretary Larry Speakes, "was expressing a personal opinion probably not shared by the President." Later, when asked in an interview with the Wall Street Journal whether he agreed with Stockman's view of military pensions, the President did not hedge. "No," he said, "I have to think this is a little different than any other pension program." Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was much...
...people feel really strongly about issues, but when pressed everybody has an opinion," Goldfarb says. Other students feel people are too goal oriented to get involved with activism...
...took a car or pickup, put half a ton of high explosives in it and drove it with the intention of blowing himself up with the target. The Shi'ites did it to the (U.S.) Marines in Beirut, to the French paratroopers and to us in Tyre. In my opinion, the Shi'ites have the potential for a kind of terrorism that we have not yet experienced...
...military situation in the region today: Israel is in relatively good shape. Egypt, in my opinion, is out of the cycle of war. Iraq is pinned down (in the gulf war), and so there is a relaxation on our eastern front. But in Syria the Soviets have greatly increased the supply of arms, both qualitatively and quantitatively, as a result of the June 1982 encounter (between Syria and Israel). I'm not saying the Soviets would not have given the Syrians these weapons anyway, but I believe it would have taken them an additional five or ten years...