Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Will the 1985 rally continue? As always, Wall Street opinion is divided. Says Peter Furniss, a senior vice president at Shearson Lehman Bros.: "This is like a frat party. We're having fun now, but soon somebody is going to call the cops, and the party will be over." Furniss predicts that the Dow may retreat to 1245 before making another bullish move. Richard McCabe, market- analysis manager for Merrill Lynch, disagrees, forecasting that the Dow will hit 1300 this month. McCabe believes that several stock groups are still bargains. Among them: companies in the paper, chemical and aluminum industries...
While intrigued by American freedoms, political plurality and cultural diversity, the Soviet leadership is unable to comprehend fully the mechanism of the U.S. political system. There is little grasp of the relationship of American Congressmen to their constituencies, the real role of public opinion and that worst bugaboo, freedom of information, which they see as a threat to security. The idealism of the American Revolution, carried over into both domestic and foreign policy more than 200 years later, the Soviets perceive as crippling naivete. Its manifestations sometimes make them doubt American seriousness. Because such institutions are nonexistent in their...
...promote himself. He later became director-general of TASS and eventually chief of the Central Committee's International Information Department. With Georgi Arbatov and Vadim Zagladin, he was part of a troika of the most familiar Soviet faces appearing in the West when the Kremlin needed to influence public opinion...
Keene disagrees with criticism that, especially during the heavily reporting of public opinion during election years, poll results shape public opinion as much as they reflect...
...feeling is that particularly in an election year, the American public becomes pretty tired of public opinion data early on and don't pay them much attention," she says...