Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Causing commotion runs in the Reagan family. More than a year ago, First Son Michael made headlines by hinting at differences with his stepmother Nancy and disclosing that the President very rarely sees his grandchildren. Maureen Reagan is, like her father, a conservative, but also has been an outspoken feminist. Her free-spirited half sister Patti Davis, who uses her mother's maiden name, has had tumultuous but unsuccessful careers in acting and music. She has come out with a novel, Home Front, a thinly disguised autobiography about growing up as the daughter of an actor who becomes Governor...
...just how serious Congress was on the subject. Weinberger's choices--the Army's Materials Technology Laboratory in Watertown, Mass., the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, and a big piece of Lowry Air Force Base in Denver --are all redundant. But they also happen to be in districts of outspoken Democratic critics of the Pentagon: House Speaker Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts, House Budget Committee Chairman William H. Gray III of Pennsylvania, and Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder of Colorado. Predictably, all three raised a howl. Somehow, Pentagon Spokesman Robert Sims kept a straight face when he declared, "I don't think Secretary Weinberger...
Perhaps the most obvious rhetoric-reality gap emerges in the problems of sex education and contraception. Outspoken Phyllis Schlafly schlafts the whole idea of educating children about reproductive biology, claiming that such education is nothing but free advertising for abortion clinics. The three major TV networks have refused to show a public service announcement because it uses the word "contraceptives". The same networks regularly program thousands of hours of hardly concealed sex scenes...
...hierarchical organization that decides all of its policy by consensus, agreed that years of forums, speeches, and referendums were not enough. "We had gone through the proper channels, but nobody had opened their ears," says Rajiv Menon, an outspoken member...
...DCBGBWC moniker was a thinly disguised front for the notorious Dartmouth Review. Ten members of the demolition crew were staff members of the Review, including Flanagan, who is vice president of the outspoken journal. All 12 say they are adherents of the paper's controversially conservative ethic...