Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubts about Chavis ran deeper. "It's not just about sexual harassment and embracing Farrakhan," says a critic. "It is absolute financial mismanagement. The board is dealing with a whole range of lies that make them question his integrity and financial responsibility." Among the misrepresentations, critics charged, were Chavis' claims of inheriting a $2 million deficit from predecessor Benjamin Hooks. "There was no deficit," Hooks contends. "I left him a $600,000 surplus. What put him in a deficit was that he spent $1.9 million more than was budgeted and didn't raise any more money." Says another former high...
Cole was also an outspoken critic of what heperceived as rampant grade inflation at theUniversity...
...tried to influence the government's investigation into Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. Nussbaum resigned in April under accusations of mishandling the affair. While he admitted he had been shocked by the Resolution Trust Corporation's appointment of Jay Stephens, a former Republican federal prosecutor and a sharp Clinton critic, to investigate the failure of the savings institution, he said he had not attempted to remove Stephens. Nussbaum was followed by the "White House 10" -- high-level Clinton Administration officials, who all copped a plea of no wrongdoing...
...even Breyer's most vocal critic on this front, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), has said he won't let the issue stop him from voting for the judge...
Those of us who were his colleagues and friends (and one was virtually synonymous with the other) are just beginning to realize the extent of our loss. Bill did an extraordinary number of things extraordinarily well. He was TIME's drama critic, but while vigorously filling that post, he also wrote extensively about politics, social issues, the media, books (especially the mysteries he devoured) and the handful of nonteam sports of which he was an armchair savant -- tennis, in particular. Between stories he appeared frequently on TV panels -- you name the subject, he always seemed ready to express provocative...