Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday, Dec. 6, the national uproar over the Iran-contra affair was at a peak. In his weekly radio address that afternoon, Ronald Reagan made yet another attempt to quell the roiling scandal, assuring listeners that "it was not my intent to do business with Khomeini, to trade weapons for hostages." The secret efforts to forge ties with "moderates" in Iran had been "broken off," the President stated...
...Reports and an A-plus billing from the A.M. Best insurance-company rating service. With a modest crop of 400,000 customers and only 39 branch offices across the country, Amica has consciously avoided increasing its size to match its reputation. Says Amica Vice President Charles E. Horne: "We address a very small segment of the market, and we try to do it well. We simply seek not to be the biggest but to be the best...
FINALLY, the election of this year's divestment candidates would help to revive the board's historical responsiveness to the alumni electorate. In recent years, the official University candidates have won election primarily because of their prominence. Few of the candidates ever address the sensitive issues facing the community or promise to work for reforms in a certain area. The divestment candidates, and the candidates who oppose divestment as well, now will have to produce results for the thousands who voted for them...
...advocates of an increase believe it would address one of the more confounding problems of the poverty cycle, what has been called the "chump change" dilemma: many able-bodied poor people see no profit in working for low wages when they can often earn more in welfare or hustling on the street. The problem is most severe among inner-city black youths, who make up the largest segment of the nation's unemployed. Many liberals and labor leaders argue that upping the minimum wage will encourage more people to seek employment and get off the welfare rolls...
...that while the world around him has changed, Ronald Reagan remains the same. Over Christmas he wore a necktie that played Jingle Bells when he pressed a tiny switch. He's brought in one of his old word wizards, Ken Khachigian, to help sculpt his State of the Union address, which Reagan is counting on to be boffo theater and rekindle the lost love. When his crew of surgeons watched him sip hot water before a radio address, he reassured them, "Both a minister and Frank Sinatra said they used hot water to help their voices, so it must...