Word: address
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However, the symposium panel agreed that any government programs resulting from this new political consensus must address what Professor of Political Economy Glenn C. Loury called the "pathological" behavior patterns of the permanent poor...
Brennan's speech was the 26th Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Lecture. He was the first sitting justice to deliver the annual address, which this year drew more than 1000 of those attending Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration...
After the address, Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29, a 1932 Law School graduate attending the anniversary, joined Brennan for a less formal discussion with about 200 law students...
...bristled at Bennett's suggestion that professionals from outside the teaching ranks -- business executives or retired military officers, for example -- might sometimes be brought in as grade school principals. Some critics also accused him of taking too rosy a ! view of the state of primary schooling and failing to address such questions as learning difficulties and the special problems of poor children. Complained Marc Tucker, executive director of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy: "He fails to reconcile how high schools could be in so much trouble if elementary schools are in pretty good shape...
This coming Sunday evening the President and his wife will deliver a joint television address from the family quarters of the White House on the subject of drug abuse. "They wanted to do it together, from their home to our homes, as parents and friends, as well as the First Couple," said Spokesman Larry Speakes. By his noted powers of moral suasion, Reagan hopes to do nothing less than make drugs socially unacceptable...