Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, his years saw the federal government increasingly at odds with the provinces over education, health care, and energy issues. Trudeau's attempts to address the country's linguistic divisions by legislating bilingualism and giving French official language status antagonized the English-speaking provinces at a time when the Prime Minister was demanding more concessions of these same oil-rich Western provinces. All this from a man whose political power base was decidely French, Eastern, and generally anti-business...
...moment, the budget gap is indeed being left unattended. Though Rea gan in his State of the Union address called for a budget-reduction "down payment" of $100 billion over three years, negotiators from the White House and Congress have had only three halfhearted and inconclusive meetings on where to begin. Last week the President and the Democrats were pointing fingers at each other over who was really to blame for the huge deficits. Said Reagan in a press conference: "I am a little struck by these born-again budget balancers, who for 40 out of the last 44 years...
Each of the last three years, internationally prominent figures have turned down Harvard's offer to speak at Commencement. Three years ago. President Reagan declined Harvard's offer, and Thomas J. Watson Jr., former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and chairman of IBM, gave the address...
...while Johnson's letter may be a step in the right direction, the apology itself does not really address the issue at hand. Harris' complaint was not only that the officer treated him roughly throughout the procedure, but also that he and his friends were stopped in the first place when none of them resembled the description of the suspects. "If it had been white students on Mass. Ave. and they had been looking for white criminals, this never would have happened," he said earlier this month...
Ranging from Elbridge Gerry's call for a Stamp Tax prior to the American Revolution to Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1978 address denouncing western societal values, Harvard commencement speeches have continually had a national--and occasionally an international--impact...