Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Student polls provide the UCS with a potent weapon for swaying the administration. "The tradition in the past is that before we do anything, we take a poll," Michael L. Mael, vice chairman of the UCS, says. Past polls have questioned students on subjects ranging from their opinion of Brown's health service to whether the members of a student-faculty committee should resign in protest of the body's ineffectiveness...
...door to power, by membership on advisory and policy-making bodies. In each, students are slowed by insufficient information and a lack of genuine authority to set policy. In each case, success in opening the door wider depends on students' ability to convince administrators that they truly represent student opinion, and to lobby administrators with polls, demonstrations and facts...
This is a fine and even courageous proposal, especially in light of the isolationist and xenophobic feelings that seem to dominate public opinion, and it is one that should have been advocated and enacted long ago. It would enable people who have lived here, married here and built homes here to cease worrying about being impersonally torn from lives years in the making...
...sound-alike journalism? The press corps itself often laments rat-pack reporting, the result of too many people and cameras covering the same obvious event. This phenomenon does explain many of the capital's transient curiosities, hasty judgments and fast-fading enthusiasms. But the real tone o Washington opinion is set by those commentators and ru-rninators who no longer have to join the pack, who write from their studies, travel the Georgetown dinner circuit and can get through on the phone to anyone who counts. They can report what "Washington" thinks (or even, as James Reston once...
...fact, the budget seemed shaped much more by political than by economic considerations. After trailing badly for a long time. Labor is now running neck and neck with the Conservative Party in public-opinion polls. Callaghan must call an election within the next 24 months, but could do so earlier if Labor takes a strong lead?as it might if Healey's minibudget proves popular. The London Times editorialized that the budget seemed designed "to keep the political initiative rather than for any purpose of managing the economy." Tories, bitter because Labor had stolen their policy of aid to small...