Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authorities for refusing to testify before the grand jury. After the full report is officially released in a few weeks, New York attorney general Robert Abrams will probably drop the case, leaving the Brawley imbroglio to be sorted out where it has played best: in the court of public opinion...
American presidential elections have a tendency to spark realignments of public opinion toward the nation's major political parties. A decade ago, the Democratic Party was regarded as the dominant political force in America. The term "conservative" was about as well-respected as "liberal" is today. Yet Reagan's 1980 election was as much a victory for conservative principles as it was for his candidacy...
...suggest to any Overseer that divestment is not a proper subject for discussion by the Overseers or that it should not be considered by them at their meeting last year. It is, in my view, an appropriate subject for discussion and advice to the Corporation. I did express the opinion that simply voting on the issue, as some people were advocating, was not the best way for the Overseers to advise the Corporation or to resolve possible differences between the Governing Boards on the issue of divestment...
...issues have lost ground in the campaign because there are few ideological battles left. People who hold an opinion on either side of any of the most gripping controversies in a campaign, like abortion, the death penalty or aid to the contras, are firm in their ideology--and thus in their presidential choice. Most people simply won't vote for a leader who disagrees with their stand on an issue basic to their view of the world...
...essence, the debate served to restart the campaign." said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. "Overall, it was a net plus for Dukakis in that it leveled the playing field for both of them...