Word: forthright
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...think twice about what I include. Then I hope I can remember it all." She is worried that too much data sharing will jeopardize the doctor-patient relationship: "If my patients fear that what they tell me could come back to haunt them, they'll tend to be less forthright. I may come up with the wrong treatment because I was chasing the wrong clues...
...mistake, chose not to inform the two applicants, because "we still had a glimmer of hope our students would be considered," according to Director of OCS William Wright-Swadel. We find this odd, considering that Carnegie had already chosen its finalist and semi-finalist. OCS should have been forthright with the two applicants as soon as it learned of its mistake. In fact, the students did not become aware of the problem until one of them actually called the Carnegie Endowment and was told of the error. The initial oversight was bad enough, but we find it unacceptable that...
...Harvard's purpose is to educate blacks or represent them proportionately and improve their self-esteem. The result is not only to confirm the ascendancy of self-esteem but also to give it the legitimacy of seeming excellence, as if the two were the same. A more full-hearted, forthright defense of affirmative action might carry conviction. This one helps me to conclude that the policy is probably, and rightly, done...
Dole has been quite forthright in discussing his disease. As the host at a meeting of cancer survivors 16 months after his surgery, Dole spoke knowingly about the common side effects of impotence and incontinence. "Unless we talk to each other fairly frankly, we don't learn much in these sessions," he told the group. "Some of the things that we read about don't return as quickly as advertised...
Maybe a little of both. But sooner rather than later, "his irresistible Irish-American charm" and his "overwhelming, unstoppable energy" (Donen's phrases) blew away your reservations. For there was always something disarming in the forthright way that Kelly, who was born in Pittsburgh, the third of five children, and worked his way up out of the chorus line to Broadway stardom with his tough, taut performance in 1940's Pal Joey, stated his needs and his aspirations. These extended beyond the standard American desire to transcend one's past and transform one's limitations. For he was part...