Word: outspokenly
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...handful of people knew what he would say--Vice President Dick Cheney, Rove, Hughes, chief of staff Andrew Card, White House communications aide Dan Bartlett and legal adviser Jay Lefkowitz. Half an hour before airtime, Rove held a conference call with five Republican members of Congress who were outspoken opponents of embryonic stem-cell research--Senators Brownback and Santorum plus Representatives Christopher Smith, David Weldon and Joseph Pitts...
Melton has been the most outspoken faculty advocate for federal funding. On Tuesday, Melton wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal with former Director of the NIH and President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Harold Varmus, laying out their vision for how the scientific community should go forward from Bush’s political decision...
...portrayal of Archie; he won another for his role as a liberal-minded Southern cop on the NBC drama In the Heat of the Night (1988-94). In his later years, after his drug- and alcohol-addicted son Hugh committed suicide in 1995, O'Connor became an outspoken antidrug crusader (see below...
DIED. JOHN MCKAY, 77, outspoken coach who led the University of Southern California to four national titles in 16 seasons and established it as a football titan; in Tampa, Fla. During McKay's 1960-75 tenure, U.S.C. picked up the nickname Tailback U. and churned out Heisman Trophy winners Mike Garrett and O.J. Simpson. In 1975 McKay left the college ranks to take the helm of a new NFL expansion team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In their first two seasons, the Bucs lost a record 26 straight games. Asked what he thought of his team's execution, McKay said...
...Japanese to discuss normally taboo subjects, like the yakuza, the royal family and discrimination against Koreans?topics the mainstream media either sanitizes or simply won't touch. "The Emperor is a war criminal. How is it that we haven't yet done away with the Imperial system?" asks an outspoken visitor to the history page. "In Japan, the press has had a monopoly over information," says Tomofumi Akiyama, a lawyer who specializes in multimedia law. "The Internet has opened the door for everyone to gather and transmit information...