Word: vocalizer
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...Mouriño, 37, had been responsible for coordinating the Mexican cabinet's efforts in the crackdown on drug cartels, although he was less vocal on the issue than some of his subordinates. A close friend of President Calderón's, he had taken the post in January and survived calls for his resignation over accusations he had given government contracts to his family's company while serving as Undersecretary of Energy. In a nationally broadcast speech, Calderón offered condolences to Mouriño's children: "His death is a great weight...
These events were designed to give the television networks fresh pictures to remind people to vote. But it's all a kabuki dance. The last days of a modern presidential campaign have a rote feel - quick flights followed by airport-hangar rallies in which McCain makes jokes, strains his vocal cords and repeats the same speech he has been making for about two weeks. If the microphones are not working well, which is often the case, he jokes that they are "brought to you by the Democratic National Committee." When he gets to the part where he calls Barack Obama...
...Aberdeenshire, with its decimated fishing fleet and dwindling offshore oil fields, has been a specific target for outside investment. Trump has promised to create 6000 jobs there, but that hardly mollified Scotland's conservation bodies. On Monday, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, one of the most vocal defenders of the dunes, accused the Scottish government of selling a "greener Scotland down the river" for Trump's money - loaded words, as the rallying cry of many Scottish Nationalists is that the Scots sold their country "down the river" for English gold by joining the 1707 Act of Union...
...rights are a perennial source of debate in California, but the rhetoric used on both sides is now reaching near-apocalyptic levels. In such a large and influential state, whatever voters do to alter the Constitution has a sense of permanency and importance. But although the most money and vocal opposition has been poured into California, it is not the only state with a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage on the table. Both Arizona’s Proposition 102 and Florida’s Amendment 2 raise similar choices. Voters should give the thumbs down...
...Salient, which he feared had given more accepting Republicans at Harvard a bad name. The editorial, entitled “The Salient is not the Right,” sent a clear message to students: the new HRC no longer supported divisive exhibitionism of a polarizing “vocal minority...