Word: outspokenly
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...gray Alfa Romeo. It was the first assassination in Lebanon since the murder of former Premier Rafiq Hariri in February, which sparked huge anti-Syrian demonstrations and finally compelled Damascus to disengage from its neighbor at the end of April. Why was Kassir targeted? He was the most outspoken critic of Syria's stranglehold over Lebanon. "It's a message to say that despite the international pressure, these people are still here and have a violent agenda," says Ziad Majed, deputy president of the opposition Democratic Left. Damascus denied involvement in Kassir's death, but public pressure is mounting...
...instance, one of the major means by which white segregationists blocked civil rights legislation in the 1960s. Republicans note that Democrats had a different view of delaying tactics when they were running the Senate. Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa has lately been one of the most outspoken defenders of the minority's right to filibuster, but in early 1995, he argued, "There is no reform more important to this country and to this body than slaying the dinosaur called the filibuster...
DIED. MARC LAPPE, 62, outspoken medical ethicist and founding fellow at New York's Hastings Center; of cancer; in Gualala, Calif. Regularly called as an expert witness on environmental contamination, he gave testimony on silicone breast implants that helped lead to a $3.2 billion settlement by Dow Corning Corp., the implants' manufacturer, in 1992--the year the FDA banned general use of the implants...
...Scarborough has been the kind of dedicated activist the G.O.P. has to thank for much of its current dominance. Since that day in 1992, Scarborough, 55, has believed that "Christians have a moral responsibility in this country to be involved in politics." For most of the past decade, the outspoken Baptist minister from Texas has used his pulpit to help elect conservative judges and politicians. Along the way, his organization, Vision America, has recruited 3,000 to 4,000 "patriot pastors" in parts of the South and Midwest to help get out the evangelical-Christian vote...
...want to know that the mayor has had to prove [himself] to the people, not...to nine city councillors, at least seven of whom want to be the mayor,” said Vice Mayor Marjorie C. Decker, an outspoken proponent of the plan. “But there are those of us who don’t want to see that happen...