Word: opinionative
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...debt-ridden state of the economy, soccer supporters' patience for massive borrowing by football clubs - and the owners behind it - has expired. Asked in a March YouGov poll whether they felt their club would be in better hands if it was owned cooperatively, 56% of fans expressing an opinion believed it would...
...wish anyway, though: In 1993, the undergraduate membership of the Fly voted unanimously to go co-ed, only to reverse its decision and choose “club unity over women” a year later after its graduate board strategically delayed the process in order to allow opinion to shift. Since then, both the Fox and the Spee have also had undergraduate majorities vote in favor of going co-ed, only to be stymied by tradition-touting grad boards...
...rather than the irrelevance, of aid from its allies in facing the more numerous forces of its belligerent neighbors. Moreover, the more recent military conflicts in Lebanon and Gaza display Israel’s inability to stem attacks on its civilian population when restrained by its allies and world opinion from taking steps necessary to dismantle the terrorist infrastructures of Hamas and Hezbollah. The Crimson staff also incorrectly suggests that the U.S. has, over the decades, uncritically given Israel carte blanche to pursue its military objectives. However, it is in part thanks to U.S. efforts that Israel did not oust...
...election is the battle for the soul of a country, and party spin doctors are busily concocting competing visions of Britain to lure voters to the polls on May 6. The stakes are high. The Conservatives' lead in opinion polls is too narrow to guarantee an outright victory, and that might allow the Labour government to hang on by the skin of its teeth (Britain's electoral system favors incumbents), or it could result in a hung parliament, with Liberal Democrats and other smaller parties holding the balance of power...
...dressed as a chicken in pursuit of Blair for the rest of the campaign. But Blair won the election. "Labour didn't really want this debate to take place," Lance Price, who worked for Blair in Downing Street, recently told the BBC. "Tony Blair was streets ahead in the opinion polls, and when you're out in front, why take the risk...