Word: opinionizing
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...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The state was pushing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act; the agency denied it had that right. To the surprise of many, the White House not the least, the Court ruled in favor of Massachusetts, issuing a majority opinion that the EPA did have the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, and that under the Clean Air Act, it needed to do so. That decision helped push the Bush Administration, kicking and screaming, toward climate change action, and provided momentum for individual states like California looking to pass their...
...contended that the security report was so important that not only should it be released immediately, it should be delivered directly to the President. But mine was the minority opinion in that office that day. The FAA, with the backing of the Secretary of Transportation, agreed to send a copy of the document to the National Security Adviser but remained convinced it was best to withhold the report from the public indefinitely. dot officials insisted that I hold the report; they were requesting that the document be classified...
...your opinion, how does fashion reflect our globalized culture? -Ronald Henry Ian Arrosas, ManilaI don't know of any designer, any brand, that is really global in its thinking. It may be global in its reach, but in terms of global in its thinking, that remains ahead of us. There's an American fashion culture, there's a European fashion culture, there are various flavors of Asian fashion culture. What's very interesting about the rise of fashion in Asia is that if you study fashion history, Asian cultures are maybe a chapter, and maybe only a paragraph. And there...
...white When we began our series of interviews, I would often ask Mandela questions like this one: When you decided to suspend the armed struggle, was it because you realized you did not have the strength to overthrow the government or because you knew you could win over international opinion by choosing nonviolence? He would then give me a curious glance and say, "Why not both...
...snippet of what a particularly despicable lynching (in Texas, as it happened) was like. Oh, God. (The man was slow-roasted to death over a coal-oil fire.) And then, when he starts taking off on the missionaries? I don't know that I want to express this opinion. But there's no getting around it: it's funny...