Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called at home well after midnight to come talk with the students, he made sure to bring enough coffee and doughnuts for everyone. "I want to thank you all for coming here to show your concern for the Law School," Bok said when he climbed on a table to address them...
...Vocation," the ultimate story of the cycle and the only one which fails to feature a celebrated name, Martone address the questions concerning the writer's art and its implied power. Abandoning all conventions, he rapidly juxtaposes images of beauty and destruction in the manner of a slide show to convey a sense of the importance and the impossibility of the writer's craft. The story ends, literally, up in the air, with aerial photographers. The landscape of Indiana recedes; the faceless narrator emerges...
...losses. He began by treating Agrava's minority report as if it were the only finding of the board and promptly turned the milder version over to the Ministry of Justice. Then, seizing the moment between the announcements of the two reports, Marcos appeared on television to address the country. He urged that the case be settled "without letting a day pass." Already the seven men implicated by Agrava had, he explained, been suspended from duty and confined to quarters. In addition, their cases would be sent to the Tanodbayan, a special prosecutorial panel that tries cases against government...
...Murray contends that this lack of progress cannot be blamed on a sluggish economy. The annual growth of the gross national product averaged 3.2% in the 1970s, a faster pace than in the Eisenhower years, when the prevalence of poverty declined. Murray, however, does not fully address the argument that growth was sporadic during the 1970s and that wage increases were badly eroded by inflation...
...affable, Harvard-educated physician who does research in biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health, claims that his own manners have required no polishing during their 25-year marriage because he was "already perfect when we met, and so was she." If anyone has the temerity to address him as Mr. Manners, says Dr. Martin, "I correct them immediately. I tell them it's Lord Manners, not Mr. Manners." (The name Miss Manners derives from a figure in Victorian English folklore who was originally called Lady Manners. She was conjured up so that when children tried to gobble...