Word: candor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those reforms to the long-stagnant cities, thereby promising the "invigoration" of notoriously sluggish industries and offering 200 million urban workers a chance to catch up with some of the 800 million peasants who have been enjoying the fruits of free enterprise for half a decade now. With startling candor, the document conceded that although socialism is superior to capitalism, "this superiority has yet to be brought into full play...
...There is a good deal more disclosure, openess and candor (in this report) than there was before," said CCSR Secretary Michael Blumenfeld. The report, "is in large part a response to the ACSR report which said 'lets see the numbers," he added...
Mondale hopes to score on candor with his deficit-cutting plan...
...turned on the television to watch Teen Dance Party or something and saw a young man, a vibrant man, on the television, " Thomas Axworthy, policy advisor to former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, said in a burst of enthusiastic candor. "He told us that if we could channel our energy into politics we could change the world " The man was then candidate for President John I. Kennedy...
Francis O'Brien, a Mondale aide who is managing the Ferraro damage-control operation, let the session drag on and on, correctly figuring that the impression of candor would be reinforced by her total submission to the process. Finally, O'Brien suggested that things wind up in five more minutes. "How about 15 minutes?" Ferraro countered. But even before that time limit, the questions petered out. After an hour and 40 minutes, longer than any press conference reporters could recall, it was over. Backstage, Ferraro hugged every aide and adviser in sight...