Word: candor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conspicuously lacking in candor and truthfulness...has no business gracing--or disgracing--Harvard University's 1987 Commencement as its principle speaker," the historian wrote yesterday in an opinion piece published in the the Boston Globe...
...stems from a single cause: the politics of AIDS. The Surgeon General is the Administration's leading advocate of the view that sex education is the most effective way to limit the AIDS epidemic. Beginning with a controversial report to the President last October, Koop has insistently argued that candor and condoms are more effective public-health tools than sermons on chastity. Last week Koop was the lone Administration dissenter from a plan for widespread AIDS testing. His argument: "I don't think anyone should be forced to have a test, in view of the stigma that goes along with...
...business of espionage, William Casey operated in a world of manipulated fact and disinformation, a place where candor is rarely considered a virtue and anyone asking questions should be treated with suspicion. No, he insisted from the first, he knew nothing about money from Iranian arms sales being funneled to the contras. Even Richard Secord, who helped oversee the diversion of funds and testified on Capitol Hill last week about his meetings with Casey, could not say with certainty whether the CIA director knew...
...against the cult of candor, of letting it all hang out. To moralize on this issue in the campaign without talking about truly important things like the arms race trivializes our society. No one can afford to be President who has no imagination, but I fear that is what we are beginning...
...Durenburger's candor isn't likely to win him many points at home, where he faces a tough challenge in 1988 from State Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III, the legend's son. Courting the Jewish vote could not have been a strong motivation for a senator, whose constituency of 4.1 million counts only 35,000 Jews...