Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ferraro, who delivered her address at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was the second participant in TIME'S Distinguished Speakers Program, which twice a year sponsors lectures by the magazine's cover subjects at a college of his or her choice. President Reagan, who spoke last February at Eureka College in Eureka, Ill., his alma mater, was the first speaker in the series...
...lost because it clung to the gospel of Big Government. "Read the speeches," she said. "We didn't call for massive new federal jobs programs, but for more responsible monetary, fiscal and trade policies to promote and strengthen the private sector." In the course of her half-hour address, Ferraro spelled out her vision of the party's future. Some excerpts...
...matter of conscience. Administration critics suspected that he had political considerations in mind. Whatever the reason, the President last week felt a need to retreat, at least briefly, from one of his Administration's most staunchly held foreign strategies. In an International Human Rights Day address, Reagan paused in a litany of familiar themes (the Soviets' "barbaric war" in Afghanistan, Iran's persecution of the Baha'i religious minority) to broach a surprise topic. "The U.S. has said on many occasions that we view racism with repugnance," he asserted. He then confessed "our grief over...
Crimson: But there is also a principle that has been expressed by Westmoreland's lawyers that public officials should have the right to protection of their reputations simply against falsehoods. Would you address this issue...
...some cases or seriously cripple the opposition in some cases. I am not quite ready to go to a system that says. "We'll trust the press as far as any public official is concerned." ... If I were to take a cut at it, I would be attempting to address the amount of damage that somebody can do in a libel suit and yet still leave it possible for someone to vindicate himself or herself when he feels or she feels that victimized by the press...