Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vautin argues that the administration has been "consistently forthright" in disclosure of environmental hazards. But Harvard's failure to make any reasonable (let alone every possible) effort to inform students of the health risk from Cambridge water testifies to the contrary...
Besides being the most forthright figure among the handful of bishops from the church's Evangelical side, Carey is a remarkable choice for three other reasons: as a pastor and educator, he has been closely associated with the charismatic renewal movement, which practices speaking in tongues and other gifts of the Holy Spirit; he has been a bishop for just 2 1/2 years; and he is a product of the working class, whereas Archbishops are traditionally upper- crust men bred in elite boarding schools and polished at Cambridge or Oxford. Raised in publicly subsidized housing in London's hardscrabble East...
...word." Beefs Wahlberg: "People don't give us credit. Janet Jackson sat down with her producers and came up with the concept of Rhythm Nation. That's the same thing we did with our album." If there is a unifying concept behind Step by Step, it is one of forthright -- indeed, brazen -- commercial calculation, which is one thing that sets the Kids apart from the Ninja Turtles and the Simpsons, who fell into their fads and weren't made (or drawn) to order. "We created a niche," Scott says. "And we filled a void...
...such clear and forthright delineations of the problems facing modern universities that Bok's outstanding qualities as an administrator come through. Unlike many in his position, he is neither a nearsighted bureaucrat nor a self-important fulminator. Rather, he proves himself once again as a remarkably incisive social scientist, separating one by one the strands of an intricate web of forces affecting higher education...
...communist, a convinced communist. For some that may be fantasy but for me it is my main goal." For those who follow the travails of Mikhail Gorbachev, that forthright credo, proclaimed last December, is increasingly shadowed by questions of apostasy. Is this guardian of Marxism really a true believer or the architect of a final loss of faith...