Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blacks continue to be among the poorest of the poor in this country after 100 years of so-called emancipation," Hatcher says. "Through the Black Common Market, you can seriously address that problem. I'm talking about giving people a means of sustaining and mainataining themselves. It's as American as apple...
Bush even tried to take credit for legislation he worked to repeal. To address the problems of the homeless, Bush suggested creating federally funded clinics to ease deinstitutionalization for the mentally ill. What Bush didn't mention was that a bill had already been passed to do exactly that; the Mental Health Systems Act was signed into law by President Carter in 1980. Once of Reagan's first executive acts in early 1981 was to insist that it be eliminated from the budget. Bush has no right to call for more clinics for the mentally ill; were...
...weapons while a Labor government took part in arms talks. But the conferees, led by Ron Todd, head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, instead endorsed unilateralism and called for the removal of all nuclear weapons and bases from Britain. Todd had earlier responded to Kinnock's keynote address with anger. His temper rising as he spoke, the union leader derided Kinnock's supporters as "all sharp suits, cordless telephones, glossy pink roses and winning smiles...
When he continued to stand and address the commission, the guards grabbed him by both arms. As he yelled that he was tired of hearing "half-truths," Agnes was pulled from the row over several other spectators and dragged out of the hearing room...
Babacar Ndiaye, president of the African Development Bank, delivered the main address and stressed the importance of international aid to Africa as it struggles with its current economic woes...