Word: outspoken
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...Once outspoken Indians glanced nervously over their shoulders to see if anyone was listening before they dared engage in whispered political discussions. Single-page underground newspapers circulated in an attempt to provide information barred by censors from India's once lively established dailies. Some politicians who have not yet been arrested have gone into hiding; others have become temporary political emigres by slipping over the border into Nepal...
...opponent of the federal regulatory agencies is, of all people, one of Washington's most active regulators. In his two years as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Lewis A. Engman, 39, has adopted what seems like a wildly improbable posture. On the one hand, he is an outspoken champion of the free enterprise system and is leading a frontal attack on the federal bureaucracy that he believes is subverting it. At the same time he is an aggressive regulator of business. Yet Engman's self-appointed role as a sort of Ralph Nader out of Adam Smith...
...week-long conference neared its final days, the problems that beset women seemed all but irresolvable in the face of national conflicts. Soviet and Chinese delegates berated each other for sabotaging the war on imperialism. Other speakers denounced colonialism, apartheid and multinational corporations. Finally, Elizabeth Reid, Australia's outspoken chief delegate, objected: "The conference is treating women as irrelevant. We have not talked about women as such...
...vastly different from South Viet Nam. It is a cohesive country with a strong government, a booming economy and powerful, well-equipped armed forces. While there is internal opposition to the often repressive measures of President Park Chung Hee, there is nothing remotely resembling civil war; even the most outspoken dissidents, in fact, loathe the Communist monolith in Pyongyang, and North Korean infiltrators are almost invariably turned in by citizens to the South's security forces...
...problem with the Buckley amendment was, according to an outspoken group of Harvard faculty members, that students' access to their previously confidential student files would bring an end to frank, straightforward recommendations and evaluations...