Word: blunt
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...particularly the House, which he feels "is like the people, both good and bad -- just as it was intended to be." He accepts contributions from political- action committees; ranks high in honorariums received; favored the 51% pay raise for Congress, judges and top Administration officials; and can be blunt with hecklers...
...year when it appeared that he could be defeated, Foley's staff urged him to blunt Republican attacks on himself as a free-spending liberal by dropping his support of a costly health bill. He refused. Why? someone asked. It was the kind of answer rare in the annals of politics. "Because," Foley answered, "if there's one vote I want to get in this election...
...particularly in view of its 18-month-old campaign to oust him. But Noriega's departure continues to be Washington's main goal, and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft disclosed last week that the U.S. has resumed efforts to find a country willing to offer Noriega refuge. In unusually blunt language, Bush told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday that "the will of the people should not be thwarted by this man and a handful of Doberman thugs. They ought to do everything they can to get Mr. Noriega out of there." Asked if he wished to temper...
Gennadi Yagodin, appointed last year as chairman of the State Committee for Public Education, has been blunt about the failings of teachers. Many cannot be replaced or re-educated, he says; the system is simply stuck with them. Money is another problem. Yagodin has promised to double the budget for new school construction and teaching materials. But the biggest need, he feels, is for free thinking. Says Yagodin: "The school badly wants more democracy." In the end, only a generation of new teachers, trained in the era of glasnost, may be able to carry out the sweeping school reform...
...whirlwind day of charges and countercharges between two powerful Democrats on Beacon Hill began with a morning news conference in Shannon's office. Using unusually blunt and harsh language, a visibly angry Shannon said "people in [Keverian's] office...at various points made it difficult" for his investigators to proceed...