Word: outspokenness
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Smith attracted the publishers' attention not only with his outspoken style but with his open solicitation of business from college professors in Michigan. The entrepreneur even advertised his own system for making restitution to publishers: Smith charges customers one cent per page for royalties and planned to send them an annual check...
...stories of women who were too outspoken or did not behave in a conventionally moral manner, even a minister who was killed for being "too strong," were read to the audience. After each story was read, one of 24 candles in the front of the church was extinguished...
...Outspoken American advocates of greater efforts look back at the days when the U.S. had the stomach and pocketbook for big initiatives like the Marshall Plan and contrast that with the cheese-paring, tentative leadership Washington is providing now. James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, says that by overthrowing communism, "the Russians have done something big and heroic. They perceive us as, in effect, not responding except in petty ways. Our response has so far been hesitant in tone, trivial in content and very nearly humiliating in its effect." As one dramatic signal, Billington favors an exchange program that would...
GOVERNMENT RIVALS. One of the government's most outspoken critics is the man legally entitled to take over if Yeltsin should depart: Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. He provided key support when his Communists for Democracy faction split with party hard-liners and backed Yeltsin's campaign for Russia's top post. Yeltsin rewarded him with the second spot, but since last fall Rutskoi has turned on his boss with a very public campaign against the economic reform plan of Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. Though a proponent of reform in principle, Rutskoi recently described Gaidar's program of freeing prices...
...Outspoken in his efforts to win information sharing from the Federal Government is Ira Lipman, president of Memphis-based Guardsmark, which many security experts consider the best national firm in the business. While the industry's trade group, the Committee of National Security Companies (CONSCO), supports Lipman's call for access, some of his competitors have effectively blocked legislation that might upgrade overall industry standards but would also increase costs and thus threaten profits. A bill they especially detest, recently introduced by Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., would require minimum levels of screening and training for all guards hired...