Word: outspokenness
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Third, the source. The main proponent of the illegitimate children story is Robert "Say" Macintosh, an outspoken Black activist in Arkansas who cries racism--and bashes Bill Clinton--every chance he gets. For more than a decade, Macintosh has embarrassed those working for racial harmony in the state with out-landish accusations of unfair treatment. He's chained himself to fences outside the State Capitol and burned flags to provoke attacks from ignorant whites...
Following condemnation of Jeffries' anti-Semitic remarks, an alarming outpouring of support welcomed the outspoken teacher. On August 15, 2000 people crowded into a Brooklyn church to show solidarity with the irresponsible leader...
...people on Capitol Hill. Word is that Sergei Stankevich, 37, the deputy mayor of Moscow, may soon be appointed Soviet ambassador to the U.S., replacing coup-tainted Viktor Komplektov. Once a professor of American politics, Stankevich has put his knowledge of U.S. constitutional procedures to good use as an outspoken reformer in the Congress of People's Deputies and as a back- room tutor to Boris Yeltsin. Mikhail Gorbachev, who once regarded Stankevich as an irritant, may now view him as an asset, given his political savvy, telegenic charm and easy command of English...
Combative, outspoken Al Neuharth was, on the whole, good to the Gannett Co. He built the firm into the biggest U.S. newspaper chain, gave it a vivacious national flagship, USA Today, and swept up many other media properties. Then again, Gannett was good to Neuharth. It paid him handsomely, and when he retired in 1989, at 65, gave him stock worth $5.1 million and $300,000 a year, guaranteed for life. Any gratitude was short-lived. In the two years since, the man who wrote Confessions of an S.O.B. has turned to global press philanthropy -- in no small measure...
...once again, he did all that, and more. In his attempt to break the ministries' stranglehold on the economy, Gorbachev made decentralization one of the cornerstones of perestroika. Under the slogan of demokratizatsiya, he created conditions around the country for popular local leaders, frequently outspoken nationalists, to defeat Moscow's minions. As a result of glasnost, the Kremlin faced up to some of the uglier truths of Soviet history, including the illegality of Stalin's annexation of the three Baltic republics...