Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iacocca had acquired American Motors, Lamborghini and part of Maserati. He reports that his management team resisted the $1.2 billion AMC purchase, but he asserted his power of paterfamilias. Says he: "I heard everybody out, and then I overruled them." Iacocca's acquisitiveness seems somewhat at odds with his opinion of what is wrong with corporate America: merger mania, for one thing. He excoriates raiders and corporate chiefs who wage expensive takeover battles, leaving companies bloodied and indebted. He also faults political leaders for shortsighted partisanship: "All we do is finger-point." He particularly chides President Reagan, whom he describes...
...fresh popularity of earmarking shows that much has changed, and much has not, since ten years ago this week, when Californians endorsed the tax- slashing Proposition 13 and triggered a national tax revolt. Pollster Mervin Field has found that while opinion still runs against any general tax increase, 7 out of 10 Californians would support higher taxes for specific programs -- even efforts for the homeless. South Dakota's former Republican Governor William Janklow, a populist proponent of earmarking, explains, "People know that if they just trust the money to government, it's going to suck it up like an amoeba...
WITNESS Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle's newfound admiration for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government--after, he said, years of believing the K-School was to politics what a K-Mart security guard is to policing. His opinion changed after reading about the K-School's plan to give "Officer of the University" status to a Texas couple in return for a $500,000 "gift." Barnicle then decided that the K-School would be right at home in the world of the State House...
...become confident in myself in voicing my opinion," Anderson says. "I used be afraid that people wouldn't like me or think that I was crazy because I said certain things. And now, I really don't care, because a lot can be done if you just simply stand up and say something...
...university has a role in the unfolding history of democracy, but one apart from it. It is, at its best, a bulwark against passionate and transitory opinion ignorant of the lessons of the past and the thought of great thinkers. It seems odd to extoll the virtues of democracy at Harvard when one of the ennobling justifications of the university is its status apart from democracy and its role as a check on democracy's excesses...