Word: candor
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Donovan expresses himself with conviction and candor. His sound, unruffled judgment as an editor under deadline pressure has been one of his great strengths. It is a quality sure to be valued in the White House. Donovan believes that his achievements will depend primarily on how he and the President get along...
Though doctors have long used placebos to appease patients eager for a drug, even when none is indicated, the practice has lately come under question, most recently in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. At a time when patients are demanding more candor, many physicians are asking themselves whether they should prescribe deceptively. Other doubts have also been raised. In a study of 60 physicians and 39 nurses at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Drs. James and Jean Goodwin and Albert Vogel found that the majority gave placebos to patients they disliked, considered...
...moral rather than practical or monetary. When Yale's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility recently recommended that the college sell $900,000 of stock in the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. (which lends money to the South African government), the committee's statement put the case with remarkable candor: "We recognize that divestiture is of little practical consequence and hence is almost entirely symbolic. Still, symbols and gestures are important in the realm of moral and humane concerns...
Disarming, if selective candor is a trademark of the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
Blumenthal's forecast was not gloomy. Late in the week, the Business Council, a group of high-powered corporate chiefs, issued a prediction of a 9.5% inflation rate for the year, along with a "pronounced, although mild recession." But the Treasury Secretary's candor raised hackles at the White House, which is sticking with its inflation forecast despite much evidence that it is overly optimistic. During the first quarter the annualized rate hit a scary 13%. The Treasury chiefs frankness will surely increase resistance to the "voluntary" wage-price guidelines among both labor and business...