Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential preference poll, once a curious way of measuring public opinion, has in recent years become so essential to the electoral process that it now exerts a harmful influence upon how we choose our nation's leaders. Rather than reflecting public opinion, polls--by narrowing our choices--have begun to shape...
...President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who has allowed the U.S.-supplied rebels to operate from his territory. In an interview with the New York Times, Zia said an interim government including members of the Soviet-backed ruling party would be "not much of a price to pay in my opinion." Khalis sought to make it clear that the rebels, not Zia, would be the judge of any such concessions...
...Reagan Administration was determined not to be outflanked yet again by the Sandinistas on the battlefield of public opinion. In a White House speech to supporters last week, Ronald Reagan sounded a familiar theme, arguing that continued contra pressure is needed to ensure that the Sandinistas keep their word. "We must make sure that each time the Sandinistas walk through a new door toward democracy, we close it behind them -- and keep it closed," Reagan declared. "Only the freedom fighters can do that." Despite recent Nicaraguan concessions, including a bow to Washington's long sought demand that the Sandinistas talk...
...asked for 100 MX missiles, but Congress gave him only 50. If Reagan had had the line-item veto, says Ornstein, he could have used it to squeeze lawmakers, threatening to eradicate programs in their districts if they did not support the vastly more expensive MX. In Ornstein's opinion, Presidents, not legislators, are traditionally inclined to budgetary extravagance. "They have to make their mark in a relatively short time," he says. "Thus, they have to spend money...
...object--i.e. man-made form, shaped, that is, through the predeliction of intrinsic motivation, internal, not external to that which can be termed 'the whole'--is, in my opinion--keeping in mind that `my', syntactically defined, is a product of the environment as all thought must of course first be intimated in a priori ontological social funtions--a darn good painting...