Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the catcalls, there were also some cheers for a report willing to break fresh ground in such blunt fashion. Said George Sternlieb, director of urban policy research at Rutgers University: "The proposal says that cities have ended up as sandboxes for the poor. It faces up to the reality of migration of jobs and people and says Government should help those who can't make the shift on their own. A new land of opportunity has opened up, and we should give poor people a chance to share in this opportunity." The report is only a draft...
...Tehran government had any hopes of getting better terms from the Reagan Administration, the President-elect effectively shot them down last week with two highly publicized broadsides. Following up in the mood of his blunt Christmas Eve characterization of the Iranian hostage takers as "criminals," Reagan told reporters: "I don't think you pay ransom for people that have been kidnaped by barbarians...
...advisory council of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. In 1971 Casey became chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. During his 21-month tenure, Casey won high marks for simplifying the regulations on issuing and trading stocks; at the same time, he developed a reputation for being a blunt-talking, decisive manager. Friends recall that when Casey arrived in Washington with his wife Sophia and daughter Bernadette, he offered to buy a Massachusetts Avenue mansion from the widow of Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert McCormick. Upon learning that the Japanese embassy had offered more money, he quickly made...
...open support of Jordan and the tacit backing of Saudi Arabia and the gulf states for Syria's archenemy, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, has left Syria feeling isolated and threatened. Some military analysts believe that one of Assad's motives in provoking the border confrontation was to blunt the possibility that Jordanian troops would be dispatched to Iraq to help in its stalemated struggle with Iran. As one U.S. analyst put it last week, "Assad wanted to remind everybody that Syria was still there...
When the four students on the Dowling Committee raised the issue of student government autonomy, they received blunt answers from three Faculty members and one administrator on the committee: student government will "ultimately," "inevitably," and "absolutely" remain "advisory." And when students on the committee suggested abolishing the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities and substituting a student judicial board, Dowling told them that disciplinary matters are "beyond the purview" of the committee. This week two student members of the committee reacted strongly to these proclamations by advising the current assembly to oppose the committee's final recommendations if they...