Word: opinionizing
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Others had a more positive opinion of Hiller’s speech than Trager...
...Arlington Group (for the Virginia city where they first convened), which began strategizing on gay marriage last June, not long after the landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down a Texas anti-sodomy law and, by extension, all state laws that criminalized homosexual acts. In his 63 majority opinion, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy insisted that the case "does not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship homosexual persons seek to enter." In a concurrence, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the "traditional institution of marriage" was not in play. But in his furious dissent, Justice...
...Irish immigrant autoworker at General Motors' Framingham factory and a first-generation Irish-American homemaker, Cahill attributes her bossiness to being the eldest of six children (three boys, three girls) and says she honed her political reflexes at a dinner table at which "you were expected to have an opinion and you were expected to be able to defend it." When the Roman Catholic Church ordered Father Drinan and all other priests out of politics, she stayed on doing constituent work and organizing campaigns for his successor, Barney Frank, and then went on to a string of political jobs that...
...seen Kerry through difficult fights in the past, especially his brutal re-election campaign in 1996, understood the candidate in a way no one else could. Strategist John Marttila started showing up at campaign headquarters three days a week. Pollster Tom Kiley was charged with keeping track of voter opinion in New Hampshire. The press office had cleared out with Jordan, so she brought in Michael Meehan, Kerry's 1996 campaign spokesman, and hired Stephanie Cutter, Kennedy's former spokeswoman. Michael Whouley, one of the most gifted organizers in the party (and a product of St. Peter's parish), also...
Bolger is chief buyer for Vermont's Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the Mexican mill's largest customer. For the 1,900 farmers who belong to the Huatusco cooperative, her opinion can mean food on the table--or not. If her standards are high, it is understandable. She pays twice the market price for 456,000 lbs. of their coffee. Why? Co-op president Josafat Hernandez has a simple explanation: "It allows us to survive." Coffee prices on the world market have fallen by two-thirds in the past five years to below what it costs to grow the beans here...