Word: opportunisme
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Bush is also suffering from a bad case of election-year opportunism. After working for two years with Congress to pass new laws regulating air pollution, establishing rights for disabled Americans and setting forth revised guidelines on civil rights, Bush now criticizes the regulations that have resulted from those measures...
She outlined a four-pronged plan for reform ofthe higher education system--ending allconferences, actively resisting "opportunism" atall levels of academia, exposing the limits ofknowledge of professors already tenured andconvincing American youth to question and todisobey their teachers, to "be rude in theclassroom" if necessary.
Underlying all the questions in the Anita Hill trial was a disposition to not believe her, says Williams. In the process, Hill's character and credibility were attacked with accusations of insanity, deliberate lying and opportunism, says Williams.
Columbus was in fact a very rigid man, and his inflexibility combined with piety and opportunism to produce behavior not far from paranoid. His growing ambition encouraged the belief, typical of obsessed loners, that everyone except God was against him. He was so certain that his enterprise of the Indies...
The Gulf War, however, is not one of those situations. In a war of so little consequence that we haven't even put our economy on a war footing, there is no absolutely no reason to put our democracy in hock Conservative opposition to debate and dissent is not motivated...