Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Testifying in an Anchorage courtroom as part of a civil lawsuit against the Exxon Corp., Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the Exxon Valdez, admitted he was less than candid with a Coast Guard investigator immediately after his ship ran aground in 1989 and spilled 11 million gal. of oil. Hazelwood testified that instead of just one beer, he had had three vodka drinks before leaving port, and that Exxon had known about his drinking problem...
Gerstner is candid about the dissension within IBM's ranks as he seeks to rebuild the glory of a once all but invincible firm that has lost nearly $16 billion over the past three years. "There are still some very, very senior people in this company that I don't think have bought into the new IBM," Gerstner told Time in an interview last month. According to a recent survey of IBM executives, "We've got half of our senior management group that is excited and committed, first to the need for change and second to the type of changes...
...noon that she would hold a genuine press conference later in the day, most reporters had been waiting 3 1/2 months to fire questions at the First Lady about Whitewater. What happened was a riveting hour and 12 minutes in which the First Lady appeared to be open, candid, but above all unflappable. While she provided little new information on the tangled Arkansas land deal or her controversial commodity trades, the real message was her attitude and her poise. The confiding tone and relaxed body language, which was seen live on four networks, immediately drew approving reviews...
...First Lady is open, candid and unflappable...
...hastily called press conference Friday, Hosokawa confessed that his previous explanations of a questionable 1982 loan had not been candid. "I sincerely apologize to the people of Japan," he said. But to most Japanese, mired in their worst postwar recession and governed by a weak seven-party coalition, no apology was enough. Hosokawa's abrupt decline was a depressing signal that big-money politics still haunt the Japanese government...