Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FROM an oratorical standpoint, Walter Mondale gave the best speech of his life that night. The crowd at the 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco (admittedly, a partisan audience) was hanging on his every word. Even though he was following Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro, the lead-toungued Minnesotan was thrilling the audience...
...speech, Goldberg did not concentrate on how men can work with other men to change their attitudes. Instead, he advised women about how they should resist sexual violence and how men can help them do so. Such a speech, while well-intentioned, was ill-considered and inappropriate...
Disasters like the February fire which destroyed the Academy of Science Library in Leningrad will continue to plague the Soviet Union's library system if that country does not devote more resources to maintaining their libraries, the head of the Widener Library's Slavic department said in a speech at Coolidge Hall yesterday...
...Checkers speech effected not Nixon's disgrace but his political rescue; and we did have Nixon to kick around some more; and if one reviews the tapes, it is easy to conclude that he actually won the TV debate with Jack Kennedy; and he was a crook. So there. With Nixon, every circumstance eventually turns out to be funnier than he is. The nation he has trod these 75 years, the framework for his antics, is itself a dark and serious comedy, simultaneously rejecting and accepting everything in its midst; a riot, a scream. Sometimes (rarely) Nixon laughs aloud...
Most important, IBM is making a major commitment to RISC. IBM Vice President Andrew Heller suggests that RISC technology could produce startling advances in electronic speech recognition, machine vision and artificial intelligence -- all of which require superfast microprocessors. Says Heller: "Computers that can listen and talk back, and recognize objects on sight, are not so farfetched. RISC will help make all that a reality, and it's going to happen this century...