Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provide Government backing for up to $250 million in commercial bank loans to financially troubled Lockheed. Understandably unhappy at the appearance of the Government guaranteeing loans to a corporation that has been shelling out millions in overseas payoffs, Simon told the Senate Committee that Lockheed had "apparently not been forthright" about its practices, and insisted that the Loan Board "will not condone illegal or unethical activities by American business, here or abroad...
...Lord and for his people, especially for the poor." The protest was joined by acid-penned Sociologist and Journalist Father Andrew Greeley, who wrote in the July-August issue of the association's newsletter that Cody is a "madcap tyrant who has been imposed upon us ... Manly, forthright and honest dialogue" has failed, he said, and all that can be hoped for now is Cody's removal by higher-ups. "The days of the present administration may well be numbered," wrote Greeley. "Its madness is well known in other parts of the church. One cannot imagine that higher...
...been a forthright spokeswoman for the Equal Rights Amendment and liberalized abortion laws, and has calmly brushed aside the criticism she knew would be coming. "When somebody asks you how you stand on an issue, you're very foolish if you try to beat around the bush-you just meet yourself going around the bush the other way." On the other hand, she admits that when she occasionally disagrees with her husband, she "wouldn't want to embarrass him by opposing his position [in public]. That I'll do in the privacy of our own sitting room...
...complained in Haiti's bimonthly Le Petit Samedi Soir. "One comes to the realization that there is an absence of national will to search for solutions to the problems which affect the future of the country." Fardin is probably right, but the government's response to his forthright criticism, typically, was to have him thrown in jail. Meanwhile, thousands upon thousands of hungry Haitians stoically endure the most abject poverty in the Western Hemisphere...
Gerald R. Ford, LL.D., President. The 38th President helps us recognize again the importance of forthright leadership, the resolve of courage in difficult times, the decency and candor defining the essential American character...