Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, anything but an inspiring performance. The President repeatedly stumbled and seemed unsure of just what he wanted to say. Several times he slipped into well-worn denunciations of congressional Democrats before remembering that this time he was supposed to sound conciliatory. In his Saturday radio speech, Reagan once again called on Democrats to "remember that lower taxes mean higher growth," even while acknowledging that "all sides must contribute" to a budget-cutting package. The net impression was that in countenancing discussion of a tax increase he was doing something he felt he must, without any conviction...
...into the enemy's bureaucracy. A window is not only something to gaze out but also an interval during which rockets can be launched or any opportunity seized. And in addition to all its other 1966 meanings, like has become an interjection, breaking out like acne all over adolescent speech, as in, "It's, like, ubiquitous...
...They fought me, I fought back. Surrender would have been neater, but it is not in me to yield." As she issued rapid- fire orders for road repair, garbage collection, telephone-line maintenance and an end to the constant power brownouts that afflict the capital, her listeners interrupted the speech with at least 27 rounds of applause...
...threats to academic freedom and freedom of speech are overt, a la the rantings of Accuracy in Academia and other latter-day McCarthyites. In a report released last week, two Harvard officials make clear that the restrictions placed by the Reagan Administration on the free flow of information subtly have eroded "democratic values, freedom of speech, and the openness of U.S. society...
Legitimate concerns of national security aside, Washington and Cambridge should not forget that the overarching concern of information policies should be the preservation of First Amendment rights. More than economic progress, our health as a society depends on free speech and academic freedom. If the Reagan Administration continues its short-sighted attempt to stop the free flow of information under the guise of national security, the result may well be a more stagnant, uncompetitive--and thus a less secure--America...