Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking pale, Chernenko galvanized the conference with a candid appeal for reform in Soviet society. Inveighing against many ills, including trite propaganda, red tape, "sponging, bribe taking and money grubbing," he demanded a "new atmosphere of intolerance" ideologically to combat what he called a U.S.-sponsored program of "psychological warfare" against the Soviets...
...controversy among the nation's Catholics about the proper approach of the church to nuclear arms policy. Kent's main ecclesiastical opponent is Archbishop Bruno Heim, Pro-Nuncio (ambassador) of the Holy See to Britain, who is strongly opposed to unilateral disarmament. In an amazingly candid letter to several British Catholics, which quickly became public, Heim suggested that the monsignor might be either an "idiot" or a conscious agent of Soviet designs...
...April. Notwithstanding its title, the show was not about Life's most embarrassing moments but television's. It took its place in a long television tradition of ritual humiliation: programs that deliberately embarrass their victims to the mingled amusement and relief of the audience. Shows like Candid Camera tried to catch unwitting people in mortifying circumstances, while The Newlywed Game prodded one spouse to air the other's dirty laundry. Most of the clips on Life's Most Embarrassing Moments were outtakes and slip-ups from TV shows such as Three's Company and Soap...
...what has become clear is that the 1978 policy was, if not a smokescreen then certainly a much less than candid appraisal of the course the Corporation was to follow. The Corporation evidently sees to South Africa policy not to much as a rigorous set of guidelines in both meaning and spirit but as something to be gotten around. Something that has to be dealt with, not because it really ought to be dealt with, but because students and some other crazy adults get upset about it. Calkins' statement was merely the last indicator of how little tooth the governing...
...Houston Ship Channel, but the La Cangrejera complex dwarfs any single facility in Houston. And it isn't even the largest oil facility in Mexico." In Coatzacoalcos, the group met with Mario Ramon Beteta, the new director-general of Pemex, the state oil monopoly, who was crisp and candid in discussing the problems of his nation's petroleum industry...