Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MAJORITY opinion is grounded in paranoia about the CIA and ignorance of the agency's history. There are only two ways to object to the CIA-sponsored Kennedy School study. One may argue that the CIA is some kind of an inherently immoral organization--whatever that means--with which Harvard should have no ties. Or one can assert that the University should have no links with the CIA merely because it is an active government agency. The majority opinion wavers between the two arguments, both of which are superficial and don't withstand minimal scrutiny...
After Chalk, 43, was diagnosed as having AIDS last February, Orange County school officials barred him from his classroom and transferred him to an education department desk job. Citing accepted medical opinion that AIDS cannot be spread by casual contact, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco two weeks ago found that the school had violated federal laws preventing discrimination against the handicapped. Said Chalk of the emotional reunion: "It has given me a lot of optimism. I expect to stay the year and be back next fall. I'm not giving...
Greider is especially tough on Paul Volcker, chairman from 1979 until this year, for bringing inflation down much too fast. Under Volcker, writes Greider, the "Federal Reserve was determined to drive the rate of inflation lower and lower, regardless of other consequences." The consequences, in Greider's opinion, were an unnecessarily severe recession in the early 1980s, a huge trade deficit and the debt burdens that still plague the economy...
Lashman also has an opinion on Lashman. He sums up his style by saying, "I'm tough but fair...
...jail awaiting trial. At least six top Communist officials in Bosnia-Herzegovina resigned from their posts or were expelled from the party as a result of the scandal, along with dozens of lower-ranking figures. The ousters represented one of the few instances in which the press and public opinion have altered the power structure of a Communist East European regime...