Word: outspoken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that very few people sincerely, with an outspoken voice, value their four years here with heartfelt appreciation. There should be a golden regard for the priceless opportunities and impassioned people we meet on this campus...
...partisan group," he said. "We invited Seed to make sure there was an outspoken advocate of cloning on the panel...
Viktor Aksyuchits, an aide to former Vice Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov and one of Berezovsky's most outspoken critics, claims that the banker succeeded, as he has so often done before, by gaining intimate access to Yeltsin's closest advisers, chief of staff Valentin Yumashev and younger daughter Tatyana Dyachenko. Yumashev is a "wholly privatized" Berezovsky subsidiary, says Aksyuchits, and Dyachenko is allegedly beholden to Berezovsky for his handling the family's finances and making generous contributions to her father's re-election. Both advisers have for several months been privately urging Yeltsin to stand down, Aksyuchits tells TIME: "They...
Already speculation is focusing on one man who is thought likely to be behind the bombings: Osama bin Laden, a militant Muslim multimillionaire. Bin Laden's outspoken screeds against America and suspected involvement in many of the most spectacular terrorist assaults of the '90s have earned him the reputation of a virtual Dr. No whose tentacles extend to almost every secret cell around the globe. Though he has denied responsibility for some of the attacks, bin Laden is still widely considered the world's prime villain after the legendary terrorist Carlos the Jackal; the State Department last year labeled...
...backfire. Even an actor who has portrayed Moses can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. And though Heston's celebrity attracts media attention, the hateful sentiments conveyed by that golden voice will more likely guarantee a continuing decline in N.R.A. membership. Heston's outspoken and controversial reflections may win the applause of the right wing, but his inflammatory rhetoric is repugnant to most Americans, including real sportsmen. KATHLEEN GREGG Pearl River...