Word: candor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coalition also contended "he lacks the requisite candor and sense of propriety to serve in the nation's highest judicial post...
Supreme Court spokesman Toni House said there would be no comment on the study, entitled "The Case Against William Rehnquist: A 35-Year History of Hostility to Victims of Discrimination and Unanswered Questions of Candor and Sense of Propriety...
Under a section entitled "Candor and Sense of Propriety," the report cited Rehnquist's failure to disqualify himself from a challenge to the Army's former domestic surveillance program. It said Rehnquist "prejudged the case" and "neglected to acknowledge" his role in formulating the program--a role the justice has denied ever playing...
...users know, journalese is a formidable bulwark against libel, candor and fresh utterance. Any threat to its state-of-the-art ground-breaking terminology would have a chilling effect on everybody, especially us award- winning journalists...
Mechanical problems are, of course, a valid reason for delaying an airliner. But with rare candor, Eastern Air Lines admitted last week that in July it had averaged 39 cancellations of 1,500 daily flights because of lagging maintenance. "Eastern is having extraordinary problems," conceded Spokesman Jerry Cosley. "Our employees are catching hell at the airports." This month Eastern scrubbed its daily flight from Miami to London on four successive days because its only available DC-10 required engine repairs. On one day Eastern kept 285 passengers waiting five hours before announcing the cancellation. On the fifth day, it kept...