Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choice of Marino seems almost foreordained. The new archbishop was one of the authors of the 1984 pastoral letter, an articulate participant in the Washington conference, and an organizer of the papal address to blacks. In his Washington speech last year, he reached back to his roots "as a young boy in Mississippi with the double -- I was going to say handicap, but I'll say blessing -- of being black and Catholic." His mother was from Biloxi, and his father, a baker, moved there from Puerto Rico. The young Marino grew up in a cultural and religious tradition derived from...
...course, long before the events of this past week, the Arias Plan was in serious jeopardy. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega had made it clear in a speech that the Sandinistas would never open up the political process to include opposition parties...
Adam J. Freed '91 and Andrew P. Goldfarb '89 won the consulate's New England-wide Japanese speech contest last Saturday. In return, they received two round-trip tickets to Japan...
...Chicago speech last week, the Vice President said he would call together another "summit" on the deficit crisis: "I am personally going to head the Executive Branch negotiating effort. Hands on, personal." Says a Bush aide: "There you have Bush's style in a nutshell. He would never send out a team and have contact with them only once or twice." That was what Reagan did during last December's budget negotiations...
...Dukakis high command is keenly aware that it has a medium without a message. For several weeks the Governor's top advisers had been preparing a major economic address that would define the candidate's agenda in the industrialized Northeast states. But the speech that Dukakis delivered in Chicago late last week seemed to borrow much of its beef from Gephardt's very own plate. Where until recently Dukakis had been direly warning of trade wars, now he was changing his emphasis by reverting to one of his previous themes: tariff protection for companies that agree to modernize their plants...