Word: outspoken
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...People on campus believe that there are some properties one would hope to find in a president in which McLaughlin was not strong," said biology professor Thomas B. Roos, an outspoken critic of McLaughlin. "It is a matter of research and scholarship on all levels...
Bradlee, who attained celebrity status as aresult of his paper's Watergate coverage,criticized CIA Director William Casey'sparticularly outspoken efforts to silence thepress on sensitive stories...
...diplomatic crisis immediately ensued. The Chinese and North Koreans were indignant: the South Koreans postponed a joint foreign ministers' meeting, and the South Korean press even suggested that Nakasone's upcoming visit to Seoul be canceled. In the wake of the uproar, the Prime Minister found a new, less outspoken Education Minister...
Later the same day, the schoolmaster handed out a report card not only on Amidon but on all the nation's elementary schools. The outspoken Secretary, who favors local initiative over guidance (or dollars) from Washington, released an 83-page rundown of what he believes should be the goals of primary-level curriculum and methods. Called First Lessons: A Report on Elementary Education in America, Bennett's document awarded passing grades in most subjects, but with room for improvement...
...five years, Puttnam intends to return to the role of producer. If he fails as a member of the Establishment, he jokes, he "still has a day job to go back to." Columbia, though, is betting big that the outspoken outsider has what it takes to turn the studio back into a long-running box-office attraction...