Word: forthright
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...Henry Moore sculpture, the title's "object of beauty," and it is their prime subject of debate as they whine and dine. She owns it. He needs it. She thinks it would be nice to fake a theft and enter an insurance claim. He is in favor of a forthright sale. While Jake and Tina talk, their hotel maid acts: she makes off with the Moore...
...Bush alone in such forthright optimism. Senators Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and Ted Stevens of Alaska returned from the gulf in December and said they had been told by military officials that a war with Iraq could be completed in five days. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Saddam's expectation of victory showed he was "living in another world," and predicted his troops would yield within three or four weeks. While few others were daring (or imprudent) enough to offer a precise timetable, many military and civilian officials described the potential conflict as lopsided and brief. British Defense Minister...
...have we argued that Harvard should limit its consideration to SAT scores, or even to SAT scores and class ranks. We simply insist that Harvard stop granting unwarranted special treatment to those who have a good jump shot or a Harvard pedigree. We also insist that Harvard be completely forthright about these policies--a request that has yet to be granted...
...admissions office, a notoriously secretive bureaucracy, has betrayed the trust of a community that respected its need for confidentiality and expected honesty in return. Harvard officials ought to show appropriate contrition for their deception, and they must be scrupulously forthright in the future...
...deftly adding education costs to his accounting of society's loss to blacks -- though these costs cover all children, rich or poor, white or black, who attend public schools -- Duke is expressing a resentment of the poor for daring to exist. During his more forthright racist days, he had eugenic solutions for the problem: tax deterrents to breeding by the lower class matched by incentives for the genetically superior. He has softened that to drug testing and mandatory instruction in contraception for all welfare recipients...