Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...himself in hot water. When he was being considered for his Navy post, the White House and the Senate Armed Services Committee chose to brush aside his past legal problems as head of a failed Texas S&L, according to the New York Times. Dalton insists he was "completely straightforward" with the Administration and the committee about the matter...
...members and the continuing consternation of many fellow citizens. Declaring oneself to be gay is no longer an automatic admission that psychotherapy is needed or an abandonment of all hopes for family and career. Increasingly, especially for young Americans, it is seen as a straightforward matter of self-expression and identity...
Take your pick, dreamer or dealmaker. Here is Thron, a sturdy, straightforward fellow who looks like one of those happy, hey-no-prob guys in the beer commercials. But he's an activist who gave up his senior year at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, to rumble around the country in a beat-up truck, presenting some 80 slide shows of his logging photos to environmental groups. It's all in support of a bill now in Congress, the Headwaters Forest Act, that would preserve most of the remaining old-growth redwood groves, which contain trees that have survived...
Epps called the meeting "a straightforward discussion of the conditions under which they can remain...
Everything about my conduct in this matter has been open, straightforward and public, from my request for witnesses, to my telephone call to Mr. Liston from the office, to my meeting with Dean Epps the next morning. I have done nothing but fulfill the request of the Committee on College Life and the invitation of Mr. Liston, to help ensure a free and fair election. As a result of doing my job, and doing it too well for the tastes of Mr. Liston and [council Secretary Brandon C. Gregoire '95], I am being barraged with threats of retaliatory action, ranging...