Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALTHOUGH THE CORPORATION'S responsiveness to opinion in the University community remains dubious at best, tonight's Corporation open hearing on South African investments should at least provide a useful forum for pointing out the gross shortcomings of the recent report on the issue released by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR). The report, issued after nearly five months of highly secretive deliberations by a committee which ostensibly represents the University community, can only be viewed as a holding action by a group unwilling to establish the guidelines of social and moral responsibility needed to bring...
...question the motives of the Corporation in calling a public hearing which only two of the seven Corporation members even plan to attend. The cavalier, no-show attitude of the individuals who have the final say on investment decisions belies the Corporation's claim that it takes seriously student opinion on this crucial issue...
...West Germany. At the airport, Carter set an up beat tone for his visit by describing Brazil; the world's seventh most populous nation, as a "truly great power." In a cool but polite welcoming statement, Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel hoped that Carter would take away "a fair opinion on the Brazilian reality...
...that human rights are an internal matter, Carter said at a Brasilia press conference: "We believe this is an interational problem, that the focusing of world attention and world pressure on us and other countries is a very beneficial factor." But he ducked when a Brazilian newsman asked his opinion of Brazil's system of selecting national leaders by party congresses rather than popular elections. Said he: "I'm not here to tell you how to form your government...
With the purge of the "gang of four" in 1976, the military returned to the center of politics, and public opinion began to emerge as an "institutional force," Terrill said. "There was a snapping of certain rhetorical myths and a concretization of wishes for a better standard of living...