Word: forthright
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...effort to reassure clients, Andersen's partners fired the lead auditor on the Enron account, David Duncan, in January and admitted to Congress later in the month that potentially incriminating documents had been shredded. But suspicion that Andersen was not exactly forthright about the level of involvement of several executives was stoked by the revelation that Nancy Temple, a lawyer with the company, sent a memo reminding employees of Andersen's document-retention policies on Oct. 12. The memo, observers suspect, was a tacit order to start the shredding...
...effort to reassure clients, Andersen's partners fired the lead auditor on the Enron account, David Duncan, in January and admitted to Congress later in the month that potentially incriminating documents had been shredded. But suspicion that Andersen was not exactly forthright about the level of involvement of several executives was stoked by the revelation that Nancy Temple, a lawyer with the company, sent a memo reminding employees of Andersen's document-retention policies on Oct. 12. The memo, observers suspect, was a tacit order to start the shredding...
...content of The Women’s Guide is convincingly adamant about the need to prevent collective “amnesia” with regards to the rocky history of women at Harvard and to provide a forthright discussion of gender issues facing women (and men) today. But the back cover plea to find “female readers” begins on the defensive, replying to an invisible critic that “this book is in fact more than The Unofficial Guide without the restaurant listings.” With such unprovoked hostility, the female reader is left...
...relations with its Palestinian counterparts. Just last week, former negotiator Yossi Beilin tried to persuade the Labor Party to walk out of Sharon's unity government on the grounds that the prime minister lacks a strategy to restore peace. The bid failed, but dovish Labor leaders are becoming more forthright in their criticisms - Deputy Defense Minister Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff recently lamented that the government had failed to take advantage of the "window of opportunity" for restoring dialogue created by Arafat's December speech. And Knesset speaker Avram Burg has accepted an invitation to address the Palestinian legislature in Ramallah next...
Jennifer Connelly describes the woman she plays in A Beautiful Mind--Alicia, the wife of the brilliant, mad mathematician John Nash--as "forthright, gutsy, irreverent, a bit of a black sheep." Those qualities are certainly present in Connelly's luminous performance, but perhaps out of modesty, the actress doesn't mention her own shining, salient characteristic, which is intelligence of a particularly watchful kind...