Word: outspoken
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They are going to realize, O'Neil says, that such institutions are depriving municipalities of a significant portion of their tax base. He argues that in Boston alone, the percentage of tax-exempt property has risen from 31 percent to 63.5 percent since the outspoken official started introducing the bills...
...Chrysler. But friends say he does not have the patience for politics, and he concurs. "I'm not interested," he says, and then, as if to explain how the stories start: "If you only talk cars, people say you're a provincial son of a bitch. If you're outspoken, then they say you are running for office." Quips Publisher Keith Crane of Automotive News: "Hell, Lee doesn't want to be President; he wants to be appointed Pope...
...outspoken rhetoric, lacocca is basically a shy, even awkward man. Says J. Paul Bergmoser, a friend from Ford days who served as Chrysler's president for 20 months: "Believe it or not, he doesn't like to walk into a room alone. At parties, he is not for giving all the women a kiss, the way some people do." While lacocca is often seen in public with the likes of Sinatra, Singer Vic Damone and Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner, he seems most comfortable in the company of his own family...
Even the last-minute preparations for the Pope's arrival in Nicaragua turned into a political tug-of-war between church hierarchy and state. Managua's Archbishop Miguel Obando y Brando, an outspoken critic of the regime, complained that the Sandinista government's plans to use publicly-owned transportation to shuttle Nicaraguans to sites along the papal route were an attempt to control who would be able to see John Paul. Some parish priests urged the faithful to ignore government timetables determining when they could leave for the Mass and instead to form their own religious processions...
...After the Medellin conference, Salvadoran Catholics organized "base communities" that evolved into political cells. In reaction, right-wing vigilantes declared open season on Catholic lay workers and missionaries suspected of leftist activity. A pivotal event was the 1980 assassination in San Salvador of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an outspoken opponent of the government, while he was saying Mass. Romero has become a martyr to the poor and to the rebellious left. John Paul may pray at Romero's tomb in the Metropolitan Cathedral, a gesture fraught with political significance. The right wing contends that the guerrillas have distorted Romero...