Word: forthrightly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...next day John and I spoke. He wasn't coy, but it turned out he wasn't forthright either. A single night and since then remorse, was what he said. There were other opportunities, he admitted, but on only one night had he violated his vows to me. So much has happened that it is sometimes hard for me to gather my feelings from that moment. I felt that the ground underneath me had been pulled away. I wanted him to drop out of the race, protect our family from this woman, from his act. It would only raise questions...
...fraught with a lot of silence, hesitation, and ambivalence, especially by white people.” Loc Truong, assistant director of the Harvard Foundation, said that he felt that a major take-home point from yesterday’s discussion was that people should be more forthright in discussing white privilege and racism, especially on campus. “My advice to students is to really be open to attending these kinds of events, and to talk to their blockmates and classmates about these issues,” he said...
...also admirable that the Obama team has chosen to be more forthright than the previous administration when it comes to deficit accounting. The announced changes to budget deficit calculation—which will now include the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in addition to other previously hidden government spending—is certainly a step toward more transparent government. Their commitment to reducing the deficit in fact as well as on paper is essential to making real improvements in fiscal responsibility...
...India, indicate the likelihood of a firm presence of the virus on the mainland. Some experts worry that China could be missing the disease's deadly progression. Last week Dr. Lo Wing-Lok, an adviser to the Hong Kong government on communicable diseases, said the mainland had not been forthright about the spread of bird flu in poultry. "There's no doubt of an outbreak of bird flu in China, though the government hasn't admitted it," he told Bloomberg. Yu Kangzhen, the Ministry of Agriculture's chief veterinarian, responded in an interview with the state-run Xinhua news service...
...new” evangelicals—who may care more about the plight of those suffering from AIDS than the legal ramifications of the latest court case on same-sex marriage—are practicing their faith in a very real way. After all, the Bible is much more forthright and adamant on issues such as peace and poverty than abortion or sexual orientation. As Duke Divinity School professor Richard B. Hays says, “Let us stop fighting one another, for a season, about issues of sexuality, so that we can focus on what God is saying...