Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, students can learn ethics through the moral leadership of the university they attend. Bok, among others, has argued that the way institutions address their own ethical challenges can set an example for its students to learn from. But does that mean that students who attend Columbia, which has decided to divest its holdings in South Africa, are receiving a better ethical education than Harvard students...
...example, might now have to shell out up to $220,000. "Our doctors are paying close to 40% of their gross income for insurance," says Dr. Richard Glatzer, president of the Dade County Medical Association. Governor Bob Martinez has pledged a special session of the state legislature to address the issue, but the prescription promises to be far more complicated than two aspirins...
...television address two days later, Chun endorsed the reforms, virtually guaranteeing National Assembly approval of those that require it. "Our politics must now cast aside its old shabby ways, which are incongruous with our level of economic development, and thus achieve an advanced form of democracy that we can proudly show to the world," said Chun. "The general public has an ardent desire to choose the President directly...
...Reagan's address on economic rights was mostly a burnishing of the ideas he has carried throughout his political life. Specifically, he will continue his assault on Big Government, high taxes, regulation. He still wants an amendment to the Constitution mandating a balanced federal budget and a law providing line-item veto power for the President. He would require Congress to muster more than a mere majority to impose tax increases. "Taxation beyond a certain level becomes servitude," Reagan declared. He brandished once again the "truth in spending" scheme that would compel Congress to assign a cost...
...uncharacteristically creative speech on Commencement Day, June 11, which has generated large public response, Bok presented a fictional account of a Harvard 50 years in the future with 20 branch campuses overseas and vastly increased foreign student representation. This address and another speech at Notre Dame, both of which touted American preeminence in higher education, said specifically that universities should encourage more study overseas and admit more foreign students...