Word: forthright
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...expected him to be relatively forthright and candid, and he was for the most part that way,” said Kennedy School and Business School student Al Norweb. “But it’s easy to talk about two plus not equaling four, when that wasn’t always the case when he was Speaker...
...coated with waterproofing material. LeFlore said that the large red cranes had been dismantled in the summer, but smaller, mobile cranes will continue to be used on site. But Harry Mattison, a member of the Harvard Allston Task Force, said that he did not believe the University was being forthright with its construction plans. “The word ‘stopped’ isn’t in Harvard’s vocabulary,” Mattison said. “They use all this funny jargon to describe what is happening...
Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf have hit a home run. Their article has humanized Bush by showing that he did have an independent, forthright side to him and, contrary to opinion, he was principled and respected the law. One wonders what sort of President he would have been if this sort of balanced thinking had been evident during his first term. People never gave Bush enough credit, and this article proves that. Ufoma Joseph Immanuel, LONDON...
...Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf have hit a home run. Their article has humanized Bush by showing that he did have an independent, forthright side to him and, contrary to opinion, he was principled and respected the law. One wonders what sort of President he would have been if this sort of balanced thinking had been evident during his first term. People never gave Bush enough credit, and this article proves that. Ufoma Joseph Immanuel, London...
...moral obligation to do more. "You've done enough," he told the President. Presidential counselor Ed Gillespie, without passing judgment on the legal merits, told Bush a pardon would have political costs: it would be seen as an about-face or a sign that he hadn't been forthright two years earlier in declaring that a commutation was the fairest result...