Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...address neighborhood concerns about the overall visual impact on the area. Harvard hired a landscape architect. Carol Johnson, who designed a tree-lined plaza on the Fogg side of Broadway and a row of trees reaching down both sides of the street to the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School several blocks away...
President Bok echoed those sentiments in his 1983 Commencement address, when he called on the Ed School to increase its role in the "growing national concern for higher standards of education." Bok spoke on the heels of a widely publicized report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education--appointed by President Reagan--which roundly assailed public education in the United States and called for a smorgasbord of reforms...
...press conference, Reagan declared that legislators "must take a responsibility" for the Lebanon debacle because the "raging" debate on Capitol Hill about the Marines' presence in Beirut "rendered them ineffective." Two days later, in a foreign policy address delivered in Washington, the President broadened that charge. "Once we established bipartisan agreement on our course in Lebanon, the subsequent second-guessing about whether to keep our men there severely undermined our policy," he said. "It hindered the ability of our diplomats to negotiate, encouraged more intransigence from the Syrians and prolonged the violence." As for Central America, said Reagan, congressional...
...quickly broke the news to Marcos. "The President was shocked," he reported. "He expressed a feeling of disbelief for this tragic incident." Under questioning, Ver denied he had informed Marcos that the killer was a Communist. Yet Marcos made just that assertion the next day in a television address...
Since 1950 the percentage of federal revenue that comes from the income tax has risen from 40% to 48% (see chart), and politicians sense that public resentment is coming to a boil. In his State of the Union address, President Reagan said he had asked the Treasury Department to devise "a plan of action to simplify the entire tax code, so that all taxpayers, big and small, are treated more fairly." The Treasury plan will not be ready until after the election, but at least half a dozen proposals are already percolating in Congress. The Democratic presidential candidates support...