Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House Speaker George Keverian (D-Everett) urged support for the bill Saturday, saying the government has suffered enough cuts. He said new taxes were needed to preserve programs for the poor, the mentally ill, the homeless and those without heat for the winter...
...syllabus sounds promising, but the lectures often cannot live up to their billings. Certainly, Professor Coles' literary expertise is impressive and his timely anecdotes are entertaining. He is a fluent, engaging speaker, completely at ease talking about his favorite authors and their works. Problems arise, however, as soon as we discover the assumptions underlying his twice-weekly monologues...
After a historic weekend in which millions of East Germans took advantage of their new freedom to travel west, Parliament also picked a non-Communist speaker in the chamber's first secret ballot and urged accelerated changes...
...question is, are you [the new government] really different from the others?" one speaker said at the rally...
...session to approve Modrow, the first secret balloting in the Communist-dominated Parliament elected a new speaker, Guenther Maleuda, who told the assembly it was duty-bound to heed the calls of the reform movement...