Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That opinion is growing in the wake of the Stockton slaughter. In California, Governor George Deukmejian and Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, longtime foes of gun control, have lessened their opposition -- at least when it comes to paramilitary weapons. Deukmejian now calls for a 15-day waiting period for the purchase of assault rifles. Gates would apply the waiting period to purchases of all kinds of guns, and has called for an outright ban on paramilitary weapons. Says he: "We have been too tolerant. There is no need for citizens to have highly sophisticated military assault rifles designed...
...politics, you can either be ahead of thewave of public opinion" or under it, Evansexplained, adding, "sometimes you can catch thewave and ride it for an extraordinarily longperiod and make some major changes...
...concern about information policy comes inthe context of concern about a vastly expanding,and, in our opinion, over-expanding, notion ofwhat constitutes national security," Spence said."We're urging people to ask questions aboutwhether national security as it was expansivelydefined in the Reagan years is being overused as ajustification for constraints on informationflow...
...gender have to their capacity to do the job? But after the box appeared, there was criticism. It followed the lines which have become all too familiar. Does everything have to be an issue? The Crimson has finally lost its independence and is now a slave to modish opinion...
There is actually some difference of opinion about whether Paris really needs an expensive new opera house. The grand old Palais Garnier, with all its gilt mirrors and chandeliers and its resident phantom, has delighted audiences for more than a century. But cultural-monument building is a beloved Parisian occupation, and after the success of President Georges Pompidou's imposing modern-art center, Mitterrand naturally began in 1981 to think about a new opera house. Being a Socialist, he talked glowingly of popular, modern opera, and the edifice was assigned to the gritty Bastille area...