Word: speaking
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...believe that we would be aware of them through our close communication with the people within the system. We can assure the Harvard community that if there were discriminatory practices against Asian American applicants in the Admissions Office, we certainly would be one of the first to investigate and speak...
...constant question "Don't you speak English?" in the streets and shops of major European cities is nothing short of an embarrassment...
While the latter two of these requirements are effective measures of true proficiency, the first two are not. Neither tests the student's ability to speak the language, and a large number of Harvard students meet the requirement without being able to carry on a conversation with a native speaker...
...accessory" to terrorism and consequently barred under American law from entering the U.S. Two days later the General Assembly passed a second resolution, by a vote of 154 to 2, announcing a plenary session in Geneva, Dec. 13 through 15, for the express purpose of hearing Arafat speak...
Thus Shultz seemed to be saying that it was up to him to decide who could speak for the P.L.O. and who could not. Moreover, given the fact that Arafat would be watched by U.S. security agents, if only for his own protection, the invocation of a security risk was, as a British diplomat put it, "nonsensical." Many diplomats were no less disturbed by the inconsistency of the U.S. position, noting that Arafat had been granted a visa to address the U.N. in 1974 at a time when his agenda was far more radical...