Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Knowlton said that Reagan has "given tax reform a lift" with his Wednesday State of the Union address advocating a change in the tax system...
After Buckley was defeated for re-election in 1976, Keene went to work for a Washington public relations firm, where she wrote radio address for public officials, including the pre-presidential Ronald Reagan...
...will not even get into the stories about my experiences with the Harvard Stadium staff. Let it suffice to say that they were the rudest group of employees I have ever encountered. And I have attended many hockey games at many different colleges. What I would like to address with you is the issue of the Harvard fans; primarily students, or so it appeared; probably some alumni; possibly a few locals...
...People must address the question of whether human beings in the U.S. have a right to better shelter than a dumpster," says Gary Blasi, a Los Angeles lawyer for the homeless. In Washington, Homeless Advocate Snyder managed to get a referendum passed "guaranteeing adequate overnight shelter," which if approved by Congress could make the city responsible for housing 5,000 to 15,000 people a night. Because last week's freeze served to focus national attention, Snyder said, "we were rooting for the cold." He is afraid, though, that the homeless may soon be conveniently forgotten, returning to their semivisible...
Afundamental issue underlies these concerns: the authority of the papacy. In a pre-Christmas address to the Curia (Vatican bureaucracy), John Paul applauded "wholesome pluralism" within the church. But he warned against the dangers of "isolationist" and "centrifugal" forces that threaten the unity of Catholicism. The mission of the Pope and the Holy See, he said, "consists precisely in serving . . . universal unity." The center, in other words, must remain the center: Rome must decide what is Catholic and what...