Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stunningly theatrical appearance, the outspoken Marine cloaks himself in honor and injured virtue. He insists he followed the orders of the President' s top advisers. -- Despite a wave of Olliemania, a Time poll shows that Americans find North more sympathetic than credible. -- This week the man most likely to implicate Reagan, John Poindexter, takes the stand. See NATION...
Reagan had chose Loury for his outspoken conservative views, which included attacks on national civil rights leaders and affirmative action policies. Loury has argued in numerous speeches and articles that Blacks are "stigmatized' by affirmative action policies and need to develop "self-help" strategies to improve their social and economic standing...
...ground in Pakistan, where agents of KHAD, Afghanistan's secret service, frequently stage terror bombings. Last week three time bombs ripped through a Peshawar railway station. In addition, the deal has run into opposition from Senator John Glenn of Ohio, a Democrat who is an outspoken critic of Pakistan's nuclear program. Later this month Glenn plans to propose an end to all U.S. military aid until Islamabad demonstrates that it has ceased production of weapons-grade uranium...
...rich with meticulous attention to the furnishings and small outbursts of naughty wit. Mrs. John Jacob Astor appears, commenting on the trials of idle affluence: "Now I play bridge. It is exactly like being alive." Vidal also throws in teasers to keep knowledgeable readers on their toes. Roosevelt's outspoken daughter Alice is quoted on her desire to leave Washington: "Scenes of former glory sort of thing. I don't want to be a fixture." That, of course, is exactly what Alice Roosevelt Longworth became for much of this century. When Oklahoma is admitted to statehood, Roosevelt rails that...
Indeed Harvard graduates say that the most influence the feel from the University is what they learned while attending Harvard. "By in large Harvard alumni are more socially aware of events and issues, and they tend to be more outspoken than the average person, and their opinions are backed with good reasons and well thought-out philosophies in government," says Sullivan...