Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first woman to speak at a Harvard commencement, King delivered the Class Day address in June 1968. Students had originally asked Martin Luther King, Jr. to speak, but he was murdered two months before graduation...
...Please stand as we raise the flag," the public address system announced, as the ROTC color guard stood erect in front of the press table...
...under construction in Los Angeles collapsed last December, killing three people, the general contractor, San Francisco-based Swinerton & Walberg, was besieged. Recalls Bill Van Leuven, Swinerton's manager of business development: "People were banging on our doors. We didn't know where to turn. No one was prepared to address the problem." The company hired Lexicon Communications, which organized a team of safety engineers and Swinerton executives to assess the possible causes of the collapse...
Ronald Reagan's State of the Union address was a gigantic production featuring fleets of black limousines, sirens, the glowing Capitol dome, trench-coated TV stars, champagne and prime television time. When Les Brown's annual State of the World report was launched one morning last week, the stage props included a glass of grapefruit juice, a bowl of All Bran and a banana, a worn corduroy suit with an outlandish bow tie, and a solitary walk on snow- soaked Hush Puppies down Washington's 19th Street to the offices of Worldwatch Institute. Nary a TV anchorman found...
...before the year is out, Brown's presumptuous 263-page volume may be studied more intently by more people in more countries than Reagan's address. And it is arguably a more accurate and provocative picture of the globe than the one sketched by the President...