Word: speaker
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...simple: a recliner, a desk, a table and a large screen which identifies the speaker and title of each monologue and shows various images taken from the scene of the dispute...
...seemed to have the slightest clue what was going on. The featured speaker, the deputy field director for Clinton's campaign, was intrepid but incompetent--a dangerous combination in politics. Her attempts to make group plans for visibility events, phonebanking, Clinton's Faneuil Hall rally and leafletting met with utter confusion: after an hour and a half, everyone was still baffled...
...might think Hillary Clinton was running for President. Granted, she is a remarkable woman. The first student commencement speaker at Wellesley, part of the first large wave of women to go to law school, a prominent partner in a major law firm, rated one of the top 100 lawyers in the country -- there is no doubt that she is her husband's professional and intellectual equal. But is this reason to turn her into "Willary Horton" for the '92 campaign, making her an emblem of all that is wrong with family values, working mothers and modern women in general...
...firmly believes the ballot box is the only way to force change. "There were some who wanted to turn power over to Shevardnadze," he says, "but I told them they were not going to make a dictator out of me." He plans to run for the post of parliamentary speaker as an independent, in an effort to stand apart from the squabbling parties and blocs. With no political or military power base he can trust, Shevardnadze has only one strong prop: his personal connections with the West. ; Whatever else they may think of Shevardnadze, Georgians take pride in the fact...
...TAXES. Speaker after speaker in Houston charged that Clinton has advocated the largest tax increase in history. But the Republicans themselves could not agree on the size of those tax hikes: the Bush Administration's Office of Management and Budget used the figure $220 billion, while Bush and other speakers, like Congressman Newt Gingrich, cited tax increases of $150 billion. The issue has tremendous political force, especially in a time of less than 2% annual economic growth. The Bush team has charged that Clinton's taxes would force many small businesses to close and cost many people their jobs. Moreover...