Word: outspokenness
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Slowly, cautiously, she also began to mold Planned Parenthood in her own image. As the political climate turned hostile to abortion rights during the Reagan years, she became more outraged and outspoken. Under Wattleton, Planned Parenthood took off the white gloves and became one of the nation's most vocal and aggressive advocates of abortion rights. The organization will soon launch a political action fund headed by Wattleton that will allow it to endorse political candidates. Today the public image of Planned Parenthood is Faye Wattleton...
Demands mounted all week for more genuine power-sharing, with the small People's Party, once a docile ally of the Communists but now more outspoken, proposing the 50-50 divide between party and non-party members...
...Communist Party officials, from Egon Krenz, the current party leader, down to district secretaries, who overnight began to sound as if they had joined the pro-democracy movement. A favorite target is Gunter Mittag, the recently sacked Politburo member in charge of the economy. Described by the newly outspoken East German press as arrogant and autocratic, Mittag is being held responsible for wrecking the economy and cooking the figures to such an extent that reformers cannot find accurate economic data with which to work. Prime Minister Hans Modrow, the moderate former Dresden party chief who himself was investigated in June...
...John H. Flood (D-Canton), chair of the Taxation Committee and an outspoken opponent of new taxes, said the speaker did not contact him this weekend about the package. He cautioned that Keverian should not attempt to introduce a new tax package without consulting his committee...
Ishihara, an outspoken intellectual, first rose to national prominence in 1955, when he published a popular anti-Establishment novel, Season of the Sun. Elected to the Japanese Diet in 1968, he has since served as Transport Minister and head of Japan's environmental agency. Earlier this year, he voiced his strongly nationalistic views in a 160-page volume called The Japan That Can Say No. The book has gained considerable attention in his own country and caused some dismay in Washington, where it is now circulating in an unauthorized bootleg translation...