Word: address
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Good, good, that means you can address our annual convention. Nothing too formal, just an hour of remarks on the problems faced by us small chicken breeders...
...name"-a tough order since so many directives are bounced from one bureaucrat to another. There was a touch of the hokey, too, in Carter's pledge to act as host of a call-in talk show that would be broadcast from the Oval Office. After the address, Carter told aides, "I'm pleased...
...stint as president of the Naval War College at Newport, R.I., which won him acclaim for his reforms of the curriculum. He jettisoned what he regarded as outdated and irrelevant courses in strategy and geopolitics and invited ideologically diverse civilian experts to lecture. In a 1973 address at the college, he warned that if military minds did not shape up fast, "the think tanks will be doing our thinking for us." He spurred far-ranging brainstorming seminars on how recent international developments affect U.S. strategy. One topic, for example, was the role of U.S. naval power at a time when...
...just this refusal to address the moral issues involved in the tragedy of Vietnam that makes the Carter pardon unacceptable. An unconditional, universal amnesty for all Vietnam-era draft resisters is the only acceptable solution. By failing to admit that the government's Vietnam policy was horribly wrong and that those who opposed that immoral policy in the only way they could were right, the pardon fails to serve the needs of those who were the victims and in many ways the greatest heroes of that time...
Weil herself left the world upset that people praised her life rather than looking to her works. "Is what she says true?", is the question that, three weeks before her death, she said she wanted posterity to address...