Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wait. (I was panicking.) Surely we can settle this difference of opinion in the spirit of peaceful compromise," I pleaded. "You're sensible people. You can't dislike pastry that much...
There still is some question as to whether Harvard's skill or Columbia's ineptitude was responsible for the outcome. But as J.S. Mill so aptly put it: "We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still." It was a little of both...
...other majors to go along as well. Carter tried to concentrate on energy, but his audience insisted on questioning him about Kennedy's health insurance plan. The President played up his own, less costly bill. Said Carter: "Both proposals have a lot in common. The difference in my opinion is that mine can pass...
Judging by opinion polls, Kennedy is enormously popular at the moment (62% to Carter's 24% in the latest Yankelovich, Skelly & White survey). But he knows he is a liberal running in a conservative time, and he is beginning to fashion his defenses. Says he: "Labels don't mean much any more. I introduced the airline deregulation bill with Jim Buckley, who was then one of the most conservative members of the Senate. I don't disagree much with Carter's spending levels. I wanted $4 billion more for social programs and that...
...reason is complex, but essential to understanding Gannett. In a separate opinion handed down with the decision, Burger emphasized that the Gannett case involved only a pretrial hearing, not a trial. Since Burger's vote to allow judges to close off pretrial hearings was decisive in making up the court's five-man majority, his opinion should limit the scope of the decision. The confusion arises from some broad language in the majority opinion, written by Justice Potter Stewart and signed by four other Justices, including Burger. It flatly states that members of the public have no constitutional...