Word: outspokenly
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...sensing that Californians were being ripped off by their utility companies, Sylvia Siegel, an outspoken, acerbic mother of two, taught herself the arcane details of utility law, launched a network to represent consumers before the California Public Utilities Commission and became the most visible and powerful utility consumer advocate in the country. Her expertise and occasional name-calling helped quash a plan to impose a "customer charge" even if no electricity was used during a given month, helped expose $345 million in overcharges by Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric, and was instrumental in creating affordable "lifeline" rates...
...then casting shadows over home run records, and McFarlane was riding the memorabilia market down. But it doesn't seem so crazy now that McFarlane Toys is the official distributor of action figures for all four major American sports. McFarlane also has individual deals with Bonds as well as outspoken Bonds critic Curt Schilling of the Boston Red Sox. And he credits his baseball collection with opening the doors that helped him land those deals...
...memoirs, Talese took the opportunity to go after the queen of television. In an earlier discussion at the convention, Talese had already called Oprah's slap-down of Frey on television "mean and self-serving" and described it as an ambush. At the Oates event, she was even more outspoken, and her remarks were captured by C-SPAN cameras. The show may air as early as this weekend...
...state of Uttar Pradesh in northeast India who grew up to be Prime Minister. Chandra Shekhar was known by both supporters and detractors as a political firebrand, an idealistic, secular nationalist who could be blunt to a fault. Indira Gandhi jailed him, along with many other of her outspoken political opponents, during a tumultuous period in the mid-1970s. Shekhar became Prime Minister in 1990, but holding only a slim majority in a fractious coalition, he served just seven months before resigning amid charges that his government was spying on political rival Rajiv Gandhi. Shekhar died...
...fear that abortion would dominate the discussion. Now Democratic leaders are pursuing alliances with the Roman Catholic Church on issues ranging from immigration to the minimum wage to Iraq. Catholic voters, Democrats realize, are the loosest swing vote in the spiritual cosmos, especially as the church has become more outspoken in its opposition to the war in Iraq...