Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another question about the B-school is why it has not been more outspoken on issues like business ethics. Indeed, the school has suffered a few ethical embarrassments of its own. Last spring academic eyebrows went up when it was revealed that a business-school professor gave a slide presentation at a seminar to National Football League executives, allegedly on a strategy for putting the United States Football League out of business, which seems to have happened. The Harvard seminar was cited as evidence in the recent and largely unsuccessful antitrust suit brought by the U.S.F.L. against the N.F.L...
...would replace Guy McElwaine as chairman. Puttman, 45, who takes over this week, is the producer of such widely praised hits as Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields but has never worked for a U.S. movie company. Indeed, he has been one of the American industry's most outspoken critics. Columbia is gambling that a talented iconoclast can provide something the studio sorely needs: handsome, intelligent films that also make money...
...barrier to a unified nation. It allows immigrants to avoid learning English and to form self- perpetuating linguistic ghettos. "English, which has been our common bond, our unifying force, is being eroded," said Stanley Diamond, chairman of the California English Campaign. Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado, an outspoken leader on the issue, echoed the idea of English as this country's social glue before a congressional committee. "We should be color-blind but not linguistically deaf," he said. "We should be a rainbow but not a cacophony. We should welcome different people but not adopt different languages...
...gubernatorial nomination; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a Democrat, lost in California four years ago, but is trying again this year. (The nation's only black Governor: Pinckney % Pinchback, who was Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana and served for a month when the incumbent was impeached in 1872.) Lucas, an outspoken and articulate conservative, will face a tough race this November against Democratic Governor James Blanchard...
...defend on Capitol Hill the following day. Also, the Administration did not want the U.S. to get ahead of its Western allies on the sanctions issue, and Reagan in particular wanted to show his solidarity with his friend British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Western leader most outspoken against sanctions...