Word: critically
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...basic cable services. To increase competition among cable-system operators, the Tennessee Democrat would allow telephone companies to enter the cable business. In addition, the bill asked the Federal Communications Commission to study the cross-ownership of cable networks and systems by the same companies. Said Gore, a frequent critic of the cable industry: "Deregulation has allowed too many cable companies to gouge consumers and left too many consumers as unprotected victims...
Several people accused me of racial insensitivity, pointing out that I described minorities as clustering together in the dining halls, but never observed that whites sit together also. From this some felt at liberty to infer that, as one critic put it, I believe "all-white tables are 'normal' but, for some reason, the all-Black or all-Chicano tables are not." Others inferred that I am unaware of the racism embedded in some whites, which is another reason for segregation in the dining halls...
Such a proposal has long been a pet idea of Councillor William H. Walsh, a vocal critic of the city's current rent-control system who has often drawn criticism from Turk for his close ties to the real estate industry...
...introduction to a 1965 reissue of Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children, the poet and critic Randall Jarrell defined a novel as "a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it." Stead's celebrated book was indeed lengthy and imperfect. But it had at its center an unforgettable father figure whose weakness and tyrannical urges were disguised by forced jollity. Francis Clemmons, the dear old dad of Joan Chase's lyric second novel (her first, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1984), also...
...ruled Mexico for 60 years, had lost its grip on the country. By striking forcefully at targets like Felix Gallardo, Salinas has boosted his prestige and consolidated his hold on the presidency. "If President Salinas won by just 50% last July," says a Mexican official and former Salinas critic, "his attacks on corruption have to have pushed his approval rating to something like...