Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speaker criticized nations--including the U.S.--for assistance to Indonesia, and for "turning a blind eye" to the plight of the East Timorese...
...Democrats. The Republican National Committee just had a three-day event in Palm Beach. Individuals and corporations who donated at least $175,000 over four years were invited to consort with leading Republican leaders including Sen. Trent Lott (R-Mich.), the majority leader, Sen. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the speaker, and Rep. Robert Livingston (R-La.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee. To give access to and listen to the needs of only those who can pay seems to be a rather odd way of running a democracy...
LONDON: Anglophile ex-House Speaker Thomas Foley is said to have the Court of St. James's for the taking. But the post has one drawback: the stately residence of Winfield House is undergoing extensive renovations. If Sir Thomas is not Britain bound, he could be headed for Japan, where former Capitol heavyweights like Mike Mansfield and Walter Mondale are doted...
...Fong's eyes shifted between the BOSE speaker and the computer terminal, I wondered whether and why she would be taking the course. What I could not understand were her motives in choosing to shop a music course. How much of the opera was she hearing, I wondered; if she couldn't hear, why shop opera...
...woman of her generation, who was told by her Wellesley graduation speaker that her role in life was to raise the next generation of educated citizens, becoming the highest-ranking female official in American history should have been triumph enough. But it is clear that Albright means to play a role unlike any Secretary of State before her--and is now consolidating the power she will need to do so. And, of course, no one is better suited to reinvent this role than a woman who, by design or default, has learned to reinvent herself so often...