Word: opinionator
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...guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters. pertaining to one's nation's defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: "everyone is entitled to know everything". But this is a false slogan, characteristic...
...Excerpt of a brief by Harvard University etc. quoted by Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell in his opinion for the Bakke case...
...Supreme Court decision concurred on most counts with the union. The decision was unanimous, but two justices voiced stronger opinions directed at the importance of union organizing. Justices Blackmun, Burger and Powell agreed with the NLRB opinion in this specific case, but objected to the reasoning behind the other Justices' opinion. Justice Brennan states in the majority opinion, "Freedom of employees effectively to communicate with one another regarding self-organization on the job is essential." In his opinion, Brennan says that the Board's decision was consistent with the Congressional intent of the legislation, for Congress did not specifically make...
...main reasoning behind the Justices' opinion seems to be the fact that comparatively few patients visit the Beth Israel cafeteria, and that the locker room area provides inadequate space for communication between employees about the union organization efforts. The opinion also stated the hospital "was unable to show any evidence" that distribution or solicitation had caused actual harm...
Justices Blackmun, Powell and Burger, however, stressed in their opinion that they believed hospitals should receive more consideration from the Board to protect the quality of patient care. For this reason, the union and the hospital disagree over how broad a precedent the case poses. "It's the first Supreme Court decision of this kind, and it is certainly clear in the case of Beth Israel, though there will probably be a lot more cases," says Shea. Chandler, lawyer for the hospital, says, "I don't think there's any question that this is not a broad decision, and does...