Word: spokenness
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...picking up steam on the Internet, and Michelle's advisers decided it was time to have a serious talk with her about it. On a campaign swing through Oregon, Michelle's chief of staff Melissa Winter grilled her on the particulars of the various versions. Had she ever spoken at Trinity Church? Could she ever recall having uttering that racial epithet? No, no, Michelle answered again and again. Additionally, she said, "whitey" is simply not a word that African Americans of her generation tend to use - or that she herself would ever say. Michelle was shocked and frustrated when...
...massive new push for nuclear power doesn't make dollars or cents. In his study, titled "The Nuclear Illusion," he points out that while the red-hot renewable industry - including wind and solar - last year attracted $71 billion in private investment, the nuclear industry attracted nothing. "Wall Street has spoken - nuclear power isn't worth it," he says...
...same token, several representatives of the normally tight-lipped judiciary have recently spoken out against the government in ways that seem to flout the limits of impartiality. Neither side appears to see the real danger in Turkey's ongoing clash between political Islam and staunch secularism: that the democratic institutions the country has built up over 85 years might be irrevocably undermined. What Turkey urgently needs is to rally behind the principles of democracy, regardless of how this current saga plays out. For that to happen, both sides are going to have to learn to build a consensus together instead...
...After months of rumbling, the press corps’ one-time whipping-boy has spoken up for himself in a new book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.” In it, McClellan labels some of his public statements as propaganda and attributes Bush’s fall from grace to a Machiavellian lack of candor among top advisors like Karl Rove...
...will return to her alma mater on Wednesday afternoon to deliver the Class Day speech to graduating students. Moore, described as one of the “Most Powerful Women” in American business by Fortune Magazine, will follow a chain of CEO’s who have spoken at the Business School’s ceremony, including Kenneth I. Chenault of American Express, Jeffrey R. Immelt of General Electric, A.G. Lafley of Proctor & Gamble. A 1978 graduate of the Business School, Moore left Harvard for Time, Inc. in order to serve as a financial analyst. After working...