Word: outspokenness
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...final stop of a highly publicized American tour, outspoken World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov yesterday blasted the leader of his native Soviet Union in a free-for-all question-and-answer session at Harvard's Russian Research Center...
...choice must compromise. The movement is willing to settle because it wants to keep the decision out of the hands of Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court's most outspoken foe of abortion. Scalia criticized the majority opinion in this summer's Webster case for not going far enough in overturning Roe v. Wade, which first recognized a constitutional right to abortion...
Frank should run for re-election because he never subverted the legislative process. Unlike many of his colleagues who prostitute themselves to corporate Political Action Committees, Frank has never put personal financial gain ahead of his Congressional responsibilities. On the contrary, he is an outspoken advocate of clean government, recently leading the investigation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Still, some Brazilians do accept that the outside world has a legitimate interest in the Amazon. Jose Lutzenberger, an outspoken environmentalist, notes that the Brazilians trying to develop the rain forest are themselves outsiders to the area. "This talk of 'We can do with our land what we want' is not true," he says. "If you set your house on fire it will threaten the homes of your neighbors...
...After outspoken protests from students and second thoughts on the part of several masters, the plan was withdrawn. The process remained the same as before, although students were no longer told their lottery numbers before listing house preferences...