Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...losing his core audience while still seeming perhaps too ethnic to a wider, whiter one. The record has not hatched a hit, and up till now has sold a modest 100,000 copies. It has also created a tactical problem: "How do we work it out so I can address both Anglo and Latin audiences...
Whether or not the conference succeeded in making Gorbachev's modernization plans "irreversible" -- his stated goal -- there was little doubt that he dominated the event. The Soviet leader delivered three addresses, including a 3 1/2-hr. keynote speech and an impassioned follow-up talk starkly warning that socialism "will die unless we reform the political system." He also delivered the meeting's closing address, declaring that the conference had opened the way to "a democratic image of socialism...
...wants to invite recovering drug addicts to walk their sidewalks? "Put it in Nancy Reagan's backyard!" was the shrill cry when neighbors demonstrated against a proposed drug treatment center in California's San Fernando Valley. While many worries may be unfounded, experts believe planners and politicians must address the emotions people develop in such situations. Perry Norton, an emeritus professor of urban planning at New York University, advocates tax abatements for homeowners who live near an undesirable public facility, or a guarantee on the resale value of their homes...
...Pentagon, defense contractors and the administration "were unabashed in their contempt toward congressional reforms," Boxer said in the Democratic response to President Reagan's weekly radio address...
This progress should not be allowed to mask the dangerous underlying problems that we have failed to address in recent years. In particular, there will be a continuing need for the U.S. to finance its unacceptably large trade deficit by borrowing money from investors in other countries. If those investors balk at any time, the result could be another sharp decline in the value of the dollar, accompanied by a steep rise in U.S. inflation and interest rates. That could lead to a worldwide recession and a renewal of the Third World debt crisis. Such economic turmoil would cause severe...