Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphysema, asthma or bronchitis. In addition, some medical experts suspect that the poisoning could result in damage to the liver and the kidneys, and could have other even more harrowing effects. "The gas affects the central nervous system," said Dr. Sanjay Mittal, a doctor at Hamidia Hospital. "In my opinion, this increases the chances of permanent mental retardation." One of Mittal's senior colleagues reported that there had been eight stillbirths at Hamidia on the first day after the accident. "Pregnant women were brought to me in great pain," he said. "They had to be aborted. Children in the womb...
...AGREE with the majority opinion in all but one respects publicly funded Christmas decorations are not merely a "familiar, unthreatening fixture." They too constitute a dangerous excursion by government over the church-state wall. Those who favor publicly funded Christmas decorations no doubt have the best of intentions; sadly, though, they fail to see the consequences...
...majority opinion appropriately quotes an essay written by E.B. White in 1956. Had they read the postscript he attached to the essay in 1962 when it was run again, they might well have understood their folly. Shortly after the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a New York law allowing school prayer, White wrote...
...MAJORITY opinion does a fairly decent job of glorifying Congressional opponents to the President's budget proposals as champions of ordinary passed vigilant against Reagan's "hatchet job on several programs." Sadly, it seems that the message heard resoundingly at the polls only a month ago has been lost on everyone but the President. We can only hope he stands fast in the months to come on his pledge to millions of hard-working Americans to restrain the growth of federal spending, even in the face of overwhelming "conventional wisdom" in the little world of Washington that "it just...
...School: "The approach by the CIA is heavyhanded and shows that it doesn't understand the law." Lawyer Floyd Abrams, who represents the media in many First Amendment cases, agrees, saying. "The remedy for the CIA is to participate in controversy and discussion in the court of public opinion...