Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the spotlight also fell on M. Danny Wall, picked by the White House in July 1987 to replace Edwin Gray as chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Gray, a onetime captive of the savings and loan industry, lost his job when he began to speak out about the extent of the S & L fraud...
...AIDS. But the script was quickly ripped up as the three-day conference was disrupted by a sign-wielding protester, dissident caucuses and angry charges and countercharges. At one point the conference's organizer, Archbishop Fiorenzo Angelini, had a tense confrontation with an AIDS victim who had sought to speak to the group...
...With the Soviet Union now encouraging the reforms that felled other hard-line rulers, the tyrannical Ceausescu last week turned to China for support in standing firm. The tide of reform is not likely to reach Bucharest so long as its despotic leader survives. Any Rumanian bold enough to speak out is beaten, harassed or imprisoned. Says Jane Ingham, a Rumanian specialist in England: "The regime is so oppressive that no opposition movement is able to exist...
...easy to attribute archetypal significance to events that are as far away as Germany. It's easy to speak of the Brandenburg Gate as theentrance into "bourgeois society." The world is not so centered as that, though. Admittedly, "bourgeois" is one of the world's vaguer words, but it nonetheless seems to me that Johnston Gate in Harvard Yard has a lot in common with the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. They're both gateways into a sort of bourgeois way of life...
...think that the numbers speak for themselves. The support money from Cambridge will decline over time," hospital administrator John O'Brien told the council...