Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THESE criticisms are not meant to imply that the survey is worthless--statistics are a valuable, if unreliable, measure of student opinion. But as any undergraduate can attest, students and their lives are not reducible to numbers or measurement. A survey on the quality of College life can only begin to assess the qualitative problems they face...
...recent Anti-Israel campaign at Harvard instituted by the Society of Arab Students illustrates all too clearly the narrow-minded, antagonistic attitudes of the SAS. The purpose of their propaganda is to sway public opinion against what many U.S. Senators have deemed America's "most reliable ally," and the "only viable democracy in the Middle East." The SAS hopes to create a permanent wedge between the United States and Israel. To expose their true intentions, all one has to do is analyze their crude, sensationalist posters...
...generations of rote it has degenerated into a kindergarten fable. Adults, of course, know the truth. The presidency is reserved for white men who have held high office and who have almost always avoided embracing a cause or expressing a sentiment that is far outside the mainstream of established opinion...
...chief target for USA Today is viewers who have already heard or seen the day's top news and want an extra helping of follow-up stories and features. A presentation videotape indicates that the show will match the newspaper's fondness for personalities, opinion polls and stray factoids (24% of all married people say they have a secret that would destroy their marriage). The show will have its own staff but will draw on the newspaper for ideas and preview some of the paper's next-day stories...
...with Jackson after leaving Gary Hart's sinking campaign, which he served as deputy issues director. He has helped persuade Jackson to reduce his planned 25% cut in defense spending to a more reasonable 10% and brought the candidate's revenue-raising notions more in line with congressional opinion. His principal asset is that he has an excellent rapport with Jackson. "If you want Jesse to do something," says an Eastern adviser, "it's worth telling Steitz to tell Jackson...