Word: candor
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...Bowl district. English, 33, an oil-and gas-leasing operator, drove some 40,000 miles to meet the area's voters, promising them hard work in Washington even though he frankly admitted that "there's no way I'll solve the problems of the world." The candor was appreciated, but English got a bigger and wholly coincidental lift from a surprising source: a flood hit the district the Saturday before the election. English was able to point out that Camp had voted against a federal flood-insurance bill...
Heimert says that when students gain access to recommendations, those letters "will lose their candor," and ultimately the effect of the law will be to "exaggerate the importance of the objective record...
...radical union has dismissed the University's position on the law as "paternalistic." "This lack of candor is detrimental to students and to the kind of education Harvard should be offering," Larry F. Vaughan, a union member, said yesterday...
...incidents rarely happen and Harvard's arguments have seldom mentioned the central purpose of the law. What appears to be more pressing to members of the Faculty and the administration is that students will also have access to their recommendations; that this access will lead to a lack of candor by professors; and that this lack of candor, in turn, will harm the student in the long...
...stories, which they entitled One Special Summer. "We are not the Bronte sisters," admits Lee in the foreword to the book, which has been discovered among family memorabilia and is being excerpted in the November Ladies' Home Journal. No, they are not. But their piercing candor made them memorable young tourists. Mischievous too. Jackie accompanied Lee to a singing lesson in Venice with one of Italy's foremost sopranos, then sat back and urged her sister to sing something from Call Me Madam. Lee now recalls that Jackie played a similar trick on her a decade later. During...