Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration recognized, however, that its position could be tough to sell to American allies, some of whom fear that Star Wars could accelerate the arms race, and even to some segments of U.S. public opinion. Hence the "background" briefings, which are a standard technique for explaining a policy that the Government is not willing to proclaim formally. Who is doing the talking is easy to guess, however, especially when the briefings are widely publicized in advance, as McFarlane's was. Certainly Moscow should have no trouble figuring it out; the briefings are open to the foreign press, including the Soviets...
Bork was one of a 6-to-5 majority on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that voted last month to dismiss a libel suit against Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, whose Washington column appears in about 180 newspapers. In his 37-page concurring opinion Bork suggested that the courts ought to be stricter about the rash of libel suits. He did not mention General William Westmoreland's $120 million suit against CBS--in which the general's attorney vows to "dismantle" CBS News--or former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's $50 million suit against Time Inc. Bork...
...Washington journalistic establishment by their press corps colleagues. They specialize in puffing up tendentious controversies, usually based on tips and leaks from right-wing sources, but colleagues acknowledge that they are often first on a story, and their reporting is well grounded. It was their mixture of fact and opinion (what the law calls "hybrid statements") that disturbed some of the judges...
...final disturbing facet of the majority opinion is its vague notion that Administration officials (and their family members, too) should not make outside income, even if it's completely legal and conflicts with nothing in their official lives. Deaver is only the latest in a long line of both executive and legislative leaders in recent years, of all ideological stripes, who have made the perfectly reasonable decision that federal office is not financially viable. (One has to wonder about Geraldine Ferraro's present feelings along this line.) Washington is an expensive city; the long-term consequences for our political leadership...
Before Tuesday's meeting Sargeant contacted the members of the board and found that "more than a majority of the Trustees share the opinion that, under the special circumstances governing the Review, the views of the student editors of the Review as expressed in their 1983 and 1984 petitions should be recognized," according to memorandum distributed by Sargeant at the meeting...