Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needed to run for Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid, I tried to take a cab into South Boston. Insensitive to the fact that racial tensions still run high in the section of Boston made infamous by its violent anti-busing protests of the 1970s, I gave the address to my cab driver, who was Black...
...talk about his desire to be the education president, his only major education proposal--tax breaks for parents who buy savings bonds to finance their children's college education--is far more modest than the Dukakis plan. The STARS program, higher education officials agree, is much more likely to address the growing middle-class squeeze which occurs when students cannot afford rising tuition costs, but fail to qualify for federal grants. Combined with Dukakis's pledge to increase federal grants for lowincome students, the STARS program represents a welcome relief to students fearful of rising tuitions and the scarcity...
...dignitaries sat on folding chairs on the infield grass at Shea Stadium. The occasion was a love fest, the official retiring of the number (41) of the Mets' former pitcher Tom Seaver, a.k.a. Tom Terrific. In the packed stands, goodwill and nostalgia outweighed even the humidity -- until the public- address announcer, introducing the honored guests, reached Giamatti. "Boo!" the crowd responded. "Booooooooooo...
President Roh Tae Woo declared the competition open. In longer form, he told the citizens in a television address, really a pep rally, "Perhaps there has been no occasion before this in which we have been so united with one mind and heart amid rising hope and joy." He signed off on the note of a "safe and flawless Olympic Games...
...Administration's endorsement, which came only days before this week's opening of the 43rd annual U.N. General Assembly session, was viewed cynically in some circles. President Reagan is slated to make his final address to the General Assembly on Sept. 26; it was quickly noted that handing over large amounts of cash will undoubtedly warm his reception. The Administration's new embrace of the U.N., however, was hardly unqualified. Fitzwater said that reform of the organization is "incomplete," before adding that "the progress is striking...