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Stepping somberly to the podium in a blue-carpeted Washington briefing room last week, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige confirmed what many businessmen already knew through painful experience. The pace of U.S. economic growth, Baldrige revealed, took a sharp downturn in the second quarter, as American manufacturers continued to be hurt by a high level of imports. After expanding at a 3.8% annual rate from January to March, the gross national product increased at only a 1.1% pace between April and June, the slowest climb since the recession year...
...Socialist victory was largely a tribute to the charismatic Gonzalez, who has become one of the brightest stars in Europe's political firmament. Though voters no longer squeal like groupies when the graying-at-the-temples Prime Minister takes a podium, he retains magnetic appeal. "There is less emotionalism than before," says a senior foreign ministry official. "But he can still convince the man in the street." Gonzalez did that last March, when he persuaded a skeptical electorate to vote to keep Spain in NATO...
Neuharth, who has led Gannett for the past 13 years, took the podium in Washington and said in a trembling voice, "I want to introduce Gannett's new boss." President John Curley, 47, would be taking over that day as chief executive officer, Neuharth explained. The announcement caught some seasoned Gannett watchers off guard. Still, it will probably not signal a complete change in corporate leadership. Neuharth, 62, will retain his title of chairman, and promised to be "very active" in that role, supervising long- term corporate strategy and acquisitions. Said Neuharth: "I love this company. I'm not going...
Before Rosales took the podium, Epps read from Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, a policy statement on freedom of speech and movement. He admonished the audience not to disrupt the speech...
...contrast this protracted "Meese affair" with Arbatov's appearance--on the exact same day that Meese was scheduled to receive his award. No student "outrage" was expressed beforehand. No one complained that a Harvard podium, complete with a veritas shield, gave the Soviet official undue legitimacy. And no demonstration occurred either outside the building or within the Forum...