Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sacked Sergei Stepashin last week, few in Russia were surprised. True, Stepashin had been in office only 82 days. But in his jealous protection of his waning presidency, Yeltsin has made the unpredictable predictable. His second move of the day, however, created shock waves. In a seven-minute television address that bade Stepashin farewell, in which his tongue and eyes strained to find the words on the TelePrompTer, Yeltsin named Vladimir Putin, a virtual unknown to most Russians, not only his acting Prime Minister but also his heir. Bestowing his trust in Putin, Yeltsin implored voters to do the same...
...Richmond initiative is being adopted in Atlanta; Birmingham, Ala.; Fort Worth, Texas; New Orleans; Norfolk, Va.; Philadelphia; Rochester, N.Y.; and San Francisco. President Clinton has touted Exile in a radio address. And the N.R.A., which donated more than $100,000 to Richmond's Project Exile ad campaign, is urging Washington to spend $50 million to apply the concept nationwide...
...most cases, the data address what happens when children are deprived of stimulation, not what happens when they get extra helpings. If kids aren't routinely exposed to language during the first year of life, for example--sign language, if they're deaf--they gradually lose the capacity to learn it at all. Similarly, kids who have uncorrected eye disorders early on will lose the capacity to coordinate the vision in both eyes. "We can't prove conclusively that these deficits involve the wiring of the brain," admits Kuhl. "But we're pretty sure it isn't happening...
...years ago, the opposition has since splintered. Even such big oil companies as BP Amoco concede that global warming demands a serious response. Just two weeks ago, a subgroup of FORTUNE 500 companies known as the Business Roundtable called on government to encourage the development of advanced technologies to "address concerns about climate change." And when he visited Washington recently, Ford Motor chairman Bill Ford said, "We believe that for the public--which includes our customers and shareholders--environmental preservation is going to be one of the most important issues of the 21st century...
Team members from the rest of the kitchen converge around Oberdorfer to help finish the cookies. Before they started cooking, the group split into two- or three-person teams that would, to their surprise, switch places at the appetizer, entree and dessert stations. The job shuffle was designed to address their boss's desire for them to share tasks better. It wasn't always easy. The first shift had a communications crisis: "The recipe says broil, but the oven's on bake!" (The incoming veggie team hadn't been debriefed on a menu change...