Word: opinionizing
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...been abuzz with gossip about Coke's mistake. "It appears to be a colossal marketing blunder," says George Mihaly, head of the consulting division of Crossley Surveys. Mihaly discovered widespread adverse reaction to the new Coke while conducting an unrelated study of upper-level managers. When asked for their opinion of the change in Coke, all the executives gave it a negative review. Since he had done some work for Coke in the past, Mihaly told, his findings to high-level contacts at the company. The early warnings were apparently ignored...
...Marshall and often John Paul Stevens. A hesitating colleague is likely to be asked, "Would you be happier if the standard were phrased this way?" If, as often happens, he is seeking Powell's fifth vote, recalls a former court staffer, he will "have the clerk working on the opinion keep in touch with Powell's clerk" to make sure the emerging reasoning is acceptable to his colleague.--Brennan will even sacrifice some of his own views if necessary. Says University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar: "He doesn't want to be 100% principled and lose by one vote...
When he cannot cobble together a majority, Brennan tries other tactics. He will cajole the conservative opinion writer with memos--called letters at the court in an effort to limit the damage to a liberal precedent. Sometimes he will get on the phone to put his case personally. The Justice's long tenure and encyclopedic knowledge of past decisions help to make him more persuasive. His intellectual pressure, say many court insiders, has meant that some opinions that start out broadly conservative end up stating a more limited principle...
...sketchy, Brennan's long, detailed and thoughtful. "The conference may disagree," says one former clerk, "but it is in terms Brennan established." Further, when he is in the majority and the chief is not, his senior status gives him the right to name the author of the court's opinion. Rather than taking all important decisions for himself, Brennan frequently and diplomatically selects a Justice who occupies the middle ground...
Carter said that the NYSE is also examining a possible shift to for-profit status. Though he wouldn’t offer an opinion on the move, he said that the NYSE is awaiting a report that will assist it in making a decision...