Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Bush takes pains to overcome what he calls "the intimidation factor" by encouraging visitors to speak freely. Bush's good-cop demeanor, however, is balanced by his combative chief of staff John Sununu, whose role is to keep discussions pointed, to make people defend their positions -- and occasionally just to cut through the bull...
...popular saying in this northern Baltic state puts it: Think nine times and speak on the tenth. Estonia's major contribution to the Baltic reform movement has primarily been new ideas, whether blueprints for popular-front movements or drafts of laws regulating economic "cost accounting" at the local level. But when Estonians do speak, they get a hearing. Last November the Estonian supreme soviet passed amendments to the local constitution, investing ultimate legal authority with the republic rather than with Moscow. That act of defiance brought on a finger-wagging lecture from Gorbachev. But the tiny Baltic state held...
When I first heard Leland speak in 1984 to a student group, nothing came across so much as that he cared. He really cared. In the middle of the Reagan Revolution, he tried to convey to a bunch of upper-middle class kids the importance of working for others, those who were less fortunate than we were...
...Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, President Derek C. Bok, the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the president of the Education Commission of the States and Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos were all slated to speak at the event...
...emphasized to the audience, will not help in educational reforms if you speak in a different voice. There is no point in trying to do what you think is best if you have not seen that view reflected in the public...