Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most of what his half hour address contained was worthy of being a memorial sermon. However, his attitude towards Harvard and his own predisposed opinions leave something to be desired...
...morning that Ronald Reagan stood under the Capitol dome and delivered his Inaugural paean to boundless opportunity, Leander V. Gilmore, 61, of "no fixed address," was found frozen to death in an abandoned house a few miles away. The cold was kinder to many others of the capital's 10,000 or so homeless. When the icy weather kept home Inaugural partygoers, several of the hosts, including a bank and a law firm, donated their uneaten goodies to the poor. Outside a Washington shelter for the homeless, ragged street people gaped as a purple van from Ridgewell's ("caterers...
While redistributing the crowding throughout the system should ease Mather's burden, officials say the crowding problems will continue unless the total number of students housed on campus is cut. Without really saying so, officials hope to achieve that goal with a new plan to address several related issues--the needs of transfer students, the status of Dudley House, and the desires of off-campus students for adequate advising and other services...
...Monday, some 140,000 people on the scene and millions in front of television sets were expected to watch Reagan be sworn in for the second time and then deliver his Inaugural Address at a for- mal convocation at the West Front of the Capitol. Drafts of the speech, largely written by the President himself, were long on uplifting themes and short on specific proposals. Reagan called for an "American renewal" that frees up the nation's entrepreneurial spirit by shrinking Big Government. In Reagan's by now familiar...
Arrangements for the congressional luncheon following the Inaugural Address featured two innovations. One was the inclusion of the dean of the diplomatic corps, the Soviet Union's longtime Ambassador to Washington, Anatoli Dobrynin. The other was an invitation to six "real people," as Mathias called them, from around the nation. Selected through professional associations, the group includes a truck driver from Alabama, a union official from Maryland, a farmer from Kansas, a fire fighter from Texas and a businesswoman from California. For the sixth, Buffalo Narcotics Agent Joe Petronella, the invitation presented a problem: he specializes in undercover work requiring...