Word: address
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...Secretary of State George C. Marshall unveils the Marshall Plan as part of his address at the 296th Commencement Ceremony. SEPTEMBER...
Bauer's handlers billed his speech as a "major address," but his appearance was limited to participation in a panel in the Lamont Forum Room. The panel was part of a two-day forum that drew many veterans of the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, including Harvard graduate student Wang...
...right maps. After a U.S. B-2 bomber struck the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last month, mistaking it for a Serbian military-supply building, State Department and Pentagon officials placed discreet phone calls to foreign missions in Washington. Could you please provide us, they asked, with the address of your embassy in the Yugoslav capital? The embassies were only too happy to supply the info. Some of the more wary foreign capitals, in fact, had phoned in the addresses to NATO immediately after the attack...
...Wetly, a scientist who magnanimously kidnaps Anna, reasoning that by breaking her will, he'll help her become a better actress. Questions on the nature of identity--is it fixed or fungible?--arise throughout Anna's captivity and its aftermath, but the amusingly absurd plot moves too swiftly to address them, opting instead for a tone that is rewardingly escapist...
...knew some of the buildings in the neighborhood that were flanking the target," the intelligence official continues. "We interpolated"--spyspeak for guessed--"this building was the building at that address, when in fact it was the embassy." Not only had the Chinese had the bad fortune to build their new embassy near the Yugoslav arms office, but the buildings resembled each other when seen from above. "The footprint described on the map was accurate," a senior U.S. intelligence official says. "There's no definable signature on this building that would scream 'Embassy!'" Linking the photograph and its coordinates...