Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Takeshita, condemned in public opinion polls for his involvement in and handling of a huge stock and bribery scandal, announced earlier yesterday he was resigning "to restore the people's trust in government...
...added that she was unclear whether the resolution was sent with the committee's recommendation, and that sending the issue to council was a way of monitoring student opinion on the subject...
...resolution came forward as a way to [discover] student opinion," she said...
...name it, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has an opinion, which he will give you with great certainty at high speed. There has never been a Surgeon General like him, not even Luther Terry, who slapped warnings on cigarette packs 24 years ago. It's a fair guess that Terry was never air-kissed by Elizabeth Taylor, the butt of jokes in Johnny Carson's monologue, was never a visitor to the set of Golden Girls, and never lectured Hollywood producers about showing safe sex in their programs. Antismoking is a small part of Koop's crusade; AIDS, child abuse...
...eerie echo from a year ago. No laws were violated. Special prosecutors could not recommend indictment. There was no hard evidence of greed or doling out special favors to get wealthy. Meese was seen to be too hurried, a bad judge of people, unaware of the court of public opinion that calls for elevated ethical standards. He was blind to the special symbolism of an Attorney General. It was a list of acceptable human weaknesses for other public jobs...