Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican. Most of the corporations are members of the Fortune 500, and many invest in banking, nuclear power, defense or energy industries. Bagdikian writes that it is "normal for all large businesses to make serious efforts to influence the news, to avoid embarassing publicity and to maximize sympathetic public opinion and governmental policies. Now they own most of the news media that they wish to influence...
Councillor William H. Walsh argued that the rates were not scaled steeply enough and institutions such as universities would still come out ahead. At his suggestion, the council agreed to discuss the issue again in two weeks, requesting the City Manager to get a legal opinion of the plan by that time...
Walsh said after the meeting that the plan's treatment of institutions reflects the hold institutions have on the city. "Again, it's fear of the power of the universities," said Walsh, adding that they could threaten the city with lawsuits. "That's why I asked for a legal opinion...
...that year, Sullivan says he asked for an opinion about it from the City Solicitor, who responded that the sponsoring of a religious scene on city property was "unconstitutional." From then on, the city no longer sponsored a nativity scene in the common...
...repeat a lie often enough and loud enough, it has been said, it will make itself true. For some time now, Harvard students have been bombarded by vicious attacks on the final clubs and lurid stories of their alleged misconduct, culminating in Elizabeth Wurtzel's rambling opinion piece in last Tuesday's Crimson ["Liquor, Pot, Cocaine, Ecstasy and Sexism," 11/22/88] which insinuated that club members are somehow responsible, among other things, for the homelessness problem in Cambridge. Lisa Schkolnick's complaint (not yet even a lawsuit) against the Fly Club to the Massachussetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD...