Word: forthright
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...Altman, who watches the communications industry for the firm Furman Selz. ''The question is, will Bell Atlantic be big enough for both Smith and Malone?'' Others speculated that Malone would soon be running the company. But Smith, 55, hardly seemed worried. ''John has expressed his interest in a very forthright way,'' Smith told TIME. ''He is interested in pursuing programming and multimedia opportunities. He will be free to roam and find new deals...
...Department of Defense began providing the Drug Enforcement Administration and other organizations with radar surveillance, communications hardware and help in planning raids on traffickers. What, then, makes the new directive significant? ''The greatest impact may be one of emphasis,'' said Bush Aide Kevin Cummings. ''We now have a forthright identification of the problem as a national-security concern.'' That could encourage local military commanders, who have discretion over what personnel can be assigned to any given operation, to be more forthcoming when assistance is requested by DEA or the Coast Guard. In addition, some observers suspected that Bush, a candidate...
...trip raises a broader question of whether the Pope set a precedent for himself with his forthright response in the U.S., making it a virtual requirement to address the issue in every country that has suffered from abusive priests. In the same way the pontiff traditionally meets with local leaders of other religions, priests, and political representatives, will the faithful expect a private encounter with victims on each new trip? Or was his response in the United States expected to cover the matter for the Pope...
...June 2 suicide bombing outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, which killed six people, has caused a bout of soul-searching in the land of Kierkegaard and Hamlet. More than ever, Danes are asking what price their country can afford to pay for its increasingly entrenched reputation as a forthright critic of Islam...
...handling of the War on Terror—most notably, the interrogation techniques used at Abu Ghraib and the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay—have been extremely damaging to the perception of America both at home and abroad. While many Washington insiders have been less than forthright about their stance on the controversial interrogation techniques, we believe now just as we did then that waterboarding is torture, and should never be condoned or practiced by the U.S. The Bush administration, however, has had no qualms with trying to pull the wool over the American people?...