Word: candor
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...undergraduates who attended the session were impressed with Breyer's candor...
...saying nothing." And for employers facing lawsuits at every turn, this belief will doubtless become widespread. At least in California, not only can employers be sued for failing to mention episodes of misconduct, but they also face the possibility of being sued by ex-employees who claim candor in reference letters prevented them from landing new jobs. For employers, the only safe route seems to be: don?t answer your mail...
Heaney also addressed the audience with warmth and candor. After reading a poem about the funeral of Beowulf, Heaney said that he wrote about this Anglo-Saxon hero to win points for Irish poets...
...sharp pruning shears and long knives. Last week, while the President and First Lady were enjoying a holiday of golf, snorkeling, shopping and koala cuddling that masqueraded as a state visit to Australia, the spirit of this straight-talking country moved the First Lady to a new level of candor--the most searching comments she has made about the controversies bedeviling her at home. In her first speech and first interview since the election, Hillary Clinton demonstrated that the wallflower role she played on the campaign trail is a thing of the past. In her husband's second term...
...Center, and oddly, just before Sweeney got her cancer diagnosis, she had agreed to appear at a benefit for the Gilda Radner Foundation to fight ovarian cancer. "I feel guilty talking about her, because it seems like I'm comparing myself to her," says Sweeney, who talks with easygoing candor and a persistent laugh that works like musical accompaniment. "And I don't think that's appropriate." Yet she proudly recalls meeting a cousin of Radner's who told her, "If Gilda had lived, she'd be doing exactly what you're doing right now." Says Sweeney: "It made...