Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment last week it seemed that the members of the new Commission on Civil Rights might banish whatever bitterness they harbored from last year's skirmishes and stand together. The commissioners answered Democrat Walter Mondale and others who criticized them as puppets of the Reagan Administration with a blunt statement: "The commission belongs to no one . . . and will serve no political ideology or special interest. That is the meaning of our independence. It is uncompromisable...
...released a Salvadoran human rights assessment asserting, as the Administration has done in the past, that "important progress has been made." Among other things, the report claims a drop in the rate of violent Salvadoran civilian deaths during the latter half of 1983, to 104 monthly, but offers a blunt admission that there has been a "significant increase" in casualties attributable to death squads. The Administration's report will undoubtedly fuel vociferous partisan criticism...
...opening paragraphs of the book showcase Cardinal's sense of nuance and suggestion at its best. In this passage she hints at many of the themes in her story without making blunt statements or obvious comparisons...
...Thayer is forced to step down, the Administration would lose a redoubtable scrapper in the struggle against soaring Pentagon spending. He had challenged the costly proposals of Navy Secretary John Lehman, who argues strenuously for a 600-ship Navy. In Thayer, a tough, blunt former naval aviator and test pilot, Lehman had an adversary of substance. This fall Lehman complained that he was "sick and tired of spending 98% of my time up on the Hill undoing the damage that senior Defense officials are doing to the President's budget." By "senior officials," Lehman meant Thayer, who reportedly responded...
...Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, and the Baronas plan to build a $2.5 million arena with room for 2,000. "Bingo is benefiting our people," says Arthur Welmas, the Cabazons' tribal chairman. "It's giving us pride." The tribe's business manager, John Paul Nichols, is blunt. Says he: "We have ourselves a little gold mine...