Word: outspoken
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NEEDLESS to say, Weicker's refusal to toe a straight party line combined with his outspoken manner, hardly endeared him to his colleagues in the Republican Party and he was often bypassed for positions of party leadership, though he clearly had seniority. But Weicker's blustery, abrasive, and confrontational style was resented by colleagues on the other side of the aisle as well, and he was never embraced by the Democrats either, because they considered him to be unpredictable...
...latest Jackson controversy reflects the larger Democratic dilemma: how to appeal to alienated white conservatives and increasingly outspoken black voters simultaneously? Dukakis' awkward attempt to straddle the two groups has apparently hurt him with both. The Joint Center for Politics survey that measured the dropoff in black support also found that 39% of Reagan Democrats were less likely to vote for Dukakis because of Jackson's endorsement of him. "The Reagan Democrats are gone," says one top party figure. "They've been gone for years, and there's no getting them back...
Unlike the flamboyant and outspoken Bennett, Cavazos does not come to the post with an ideological axe to grind or a constituency to alienate. Unlike Bennett, who seemed to take pleasure in refusing to meet with leaders of the education community and asserted that they were merely interested in obtaining more federal money for their programs, Cavazos says he is ready to build a new consensus with Congress and educators...
Foster--known as a hot dog on the field and outspoken off it--never quite got along with the coaches at Harvard...
Lockwood cites his work last semester as secretary, the council's third highest but generally least sought job, his advocacy of University neutrality in the union election and his outspoken stance against the all-male final clubs as elements of his record which qualify him for the chairmanship...