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Word: outspokenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration's agreement ran into turbulence during two of Bush's National Security Council sessions in mid-March. Outspoken opponents included White House chief of staff John Sununu, a former engineering professor, who argued that the U.S. risked losing the technological edge represented by the plane's so-called source codes, which coordinate its electronic features. The doubters were joined by Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher, who says he wanted to ensure that "this aviation technology, which has taken so many years of blood, sweat, tears and money to develop, did not instantly allow our biggest competitor to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friend Or Foe? | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Imelda Marcos, the outspoken wife of the Philippines' deposed President, is nothing if not determined to take her man home. But Ferdinand Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino, refuses to allow the 71-year-old former leader, who suffers from heart and lung ailments, to return dead or alive from exile in Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Fertilizer of His Country | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

What also distinguishes this issue is the unprecedented involvement of Soviet journalists and writers. We asked Vitali Korotich, editor of Ogonyok, a leading light of glasnost, to write about the pitfalls of the new Soviet journalism. Mikhail Zhvanetsky, one the country's most popular and outspoken comedians, penned a monologue for Show Business. Yuri Shchekochikhin, who works for Literaturnaya Gazeta, co-wrote a piece examining perestroika in the provinces. The Books section features an excerpt from The Place of the Skull, the latest novel by one of Gorbachev's favorite authors, Chingiz Aitmatov. Andrei Sinyavsky, an emigre writer who spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Apr 10 1989 | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

More than a month ago President Derek C. Bok appointed the outspoken Robert C. Clark as Law School dean, saying that it was time for the divided faculty to put aside its political differences and concentrate on other academic issues...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Divided Law Faculty Finishes a Chapter | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

Ever since he was brought by Mikhail Gorbachev into the Soviet Politburo in December 1985, no Soviet political figure has been as irreverently outspoken about Soviet life or as ambitious to change it as Boris Yeltsin, 58, a heavyset, 6-ft. 2-in. man from Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains. Appointed to clean up the corrupt Moscow party committee, he quickly fired hundreds of bureaucrats and barnstormed the city, criticizing food shortages and general incompetence. But his reforming zeal and a bitter public debate with Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev led to his public censure and ouster from the Moscow party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with BORIS YELTSIN: One Bear Of a Soviet Politician: | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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