Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe that I should not interfere in someone else's life--period," Lees said, adding that he would have preferred to deliver his first Senate speech on another subject but felt compelled to speak out after abortion opponents attacked supporters personally...
...wasn't negative to them -- it was unifying. When they got off the boat, the second word they learned was "nigger." Ask them -- I grew up with them. I remember in the fifth grade a smart little boy who had just arrived and didn't speak any English. He sat next to me. I read well, and I taught him to read just by doing it. I remember the moment he found out that I was black -- a nigger. It took him six months; he was told. And that's the moment when he belonged, that was his entrance. Every...
Because senior faculty are asked to evaluate candidates for tenure around the country, to travel and speak at conferences and to sit on other universities' ad hoc committees, the amount of time they spend doing service work is considerably more than what junior faculty spend, Vendler asserts...
...what is peculiar to American Samoa, one need travel only 40 miles across the waters to Western Samoa, a relatively forgotten independent island that has four times as many people as its American namesake, but no congressional support. In Western Samoa, people speak English in the gentle, sea-lapping cadences of the South Pacific; in American, they favor the twang of Beach Boys and Valley Girls. In Western, residents play the genteel old colonial game of lawn bowling; in American, they converge on a twelve-lane bowling alley. And in Western, the roads are lined with pigs, while in American...
Three times a month, usually on a Friday afternoon or Saturday, Shevardnadze gathers with the 29-member Foreign Ministry collegium, an informal council composed of senior Foreign Ministry officials and invited guests. The four- to five-hour sessions touch on issues ranging from ambassadorial appointments to terrorism. "You can speak your opinion now and be certain it will be heard," says Deputy Minister Anatoli Adamishin. "Even my subordinates can express disagreement with my views. In fact, criticism is better received than words of praise." Unlike James Baker, Shevardnadze does not shun career officials in favor of a small clutch...