Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thornburgh, who served as governor for two terms, will leave office on January 20. During his time as governor, he was outspoken on several major economic issues. He was an early supporter of tax reform and of the mandatory balanced budget act. He also favored abolishing federal income tax deductions for state and local taxes, a move which would aid low-tax states such as Pennsylvania...
...Hell, every week that goes by, it's almost accepted as a common event, a near midair!" complains Captain Hank Duffy, the outspoken head of the 39,000- member Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). Says Duffy: "Near midairs, runway incursions, delays -- every indicator in the system says that we're hanging by our fingernails...
...Student protests present Peking with a delicate dilemma. -- In Moscow, Sakharov is as outspoken as ever. -- Terror in the Mideast skies...
...raids, the Boesky scandal heated up the public scrutiny of takeover artists. Economists and other thinkers wondered out loud whether greed had gotten out of control on Wall Street. "This is no longer free enterprise. It's predators on the loose," declared Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, perhaps the most outspoken critic of corporate raiding. Observers began to describe the era as a time of paper entrepreneurship, in which a lot of stock and money changes hands but no real work gets done to benefit the economy. "In America, industry has become the plaything of finance," said Robert Reich, a lecturer...
...Cano, an outspoken opponent of Colombia's drug cartel, is believed to be the victim of the country's ruthless cocaine kings, who annually murder dozens % of judges, police and journalists who attempt to expose their activities. After the shooting, an angry President Virgilio Barco signed back into law a U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty that had been invalidated by a technicality, and decreed stiffer penalties for drug violations. Barco, who attended Cano's funeral, denounced the drug lords as men "with no God" who "stop at nothing...