Word: upfront
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...Josephine Fiorentino] wrote a letter recently to Alan Stone saying that the future for Charlesview might look better somewhere else,” Spiegelman says. “She’s been very upfront and we’ve been upfront—she wants to make sure her residents are well informed…and does want to move too quickly...
...principle of full disclosure, I must admit upfront how sickened I was by Duncan M. Currie’s selection (Comment, “A More Progressive Tax Code”, Jan. 31). Was it the use of quotation marks around the words “poor” and “wealthy”? Are these indeed such malleable concepts when we contrast, as Mr. Currie does in his first paragraph, those earning under $30,000 a year with those earning over...
Let’s be upfront: cheating—most commonly in the insidious form of copying or other illicit collaboration—happens quite a bit at Harvard on take-home assignments, especially problem sets. Worse, Harvard’s prohibitory policies on inappropriate collaboration, while explicitly stated in the Handbook for Students and often in course syllabi themselves, are enforced about as effectively as anti-terrorism legislation is enforced by the Palestinian Authority...
...more objectionable than others. Ultimately, said Cunningham, “there are things a photographer will do which don’t fall under strict, textbook guidelines” of the kind Gefter mentioned. Cunningham stressed that such photographs, taken while reporting, must be accompanied by “upfront,” full disclosure. But in many cases, these things may go unnoticed...
...challenge the admissions office to come forward with statistics that refute the fact that the Z-list is composed almost entirely of wealthy legacy students—and if they do not, I challenge them either to disband this elitist money-funnel, or at the very least to be upfront about its true raison d’etre...