Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McGrath later chided attendees for fallingasleep during the speech, which concerned safetyand courtesy aboard Navy vessels and was deliveredby Ret. Capt. George Street, a World War IIveteran and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient...
Known for his generally conciliatory approach in dealing with the legislature since he returned to office in 1983, supporters say he is now using the toughest language of his career. In his speech, he referred to critics as "chronic complainers" and "gloom and doomers...
...statement from the New Forum opposition group, which counts more than 15,000 members, reflected the growing feeling that Krenz's leadership is serious about loosening restrictions on free speech...
...believe Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is morally equivalent to South African apartheid. However, my disagreement with others' interpretations of historical events does not give me the right of censorship. Their speech doesn't denigrate me; at most, it makes me uneasy...
...other words, the way Harvard dealt with controversial speech on the Middle East was to bar it from campus...