Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three times a week. One of the witnesses last week was Attorney General Edwin Meese, who is sharply criticized in the report for failing to seek advice before telling the President that he could legally sell arms to Iran without informing Congress. Meese testified that he relied on an opinion written in 1981 by former Attorney General William French Smith. But the report points out that Smith had advised that Congress would have to be notified once arms shipments were under way. Said the report: "There is only one reason to have an attorney general on the NSC: to give...
...think its obviously all politics," Cassell said. "Maia is defintely the best setter in the Ivy League. Three Ivy coaches even said so. In our whole team's opinion, she could have been the tournament MVP. There is no question that she should have made the first team...
...Ayers, who argued several cases before Kennedy: "I always had the sense that he approaches each case with no predilection about who will be the winners or losers." Kozinski asserts that Kennedy sometimes is open to change even after reaching a preliminary decision. When clerks had trouble framing an opinion according to the judge's instructions, says Kozinski, Kennedy would muse that "if the case wouldn't write that way, maybe the result was wrong...
Most economists believe a deficit cut is necessary to prevent a loss of confidence that might bring on a recession. The contrary opinion among a few thinkers is that too large a budget reduction would sap momentum from the economy at a weak moment. But that idea seems increasingly implausible in the light of Washington's current paralysis. Says Economist Rudolph Penner of the Urban Institute: "The last thing that should keep you awake right now is the fear that Congress will do too much...
Goldsmith is fiercely anti-Communist, extravagantly so. "Jimmy believes," says an old friend, "that the KGB is using the global media to destabilize public opinion and spread lies." Goldsmith is just as fiercely critical of the business establishment, which he calls corpocracy. Big companies, he says, are in league with big government and big unions to stifle change and progress. "With the return of the Democrats to power over both houses of Congress," he says, "you are once more suffering the outrages of that triangular alliance...