Word: speech
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That same year, she returned to the public stage as Washington's emissary to Italy, the first American woman to be named ambassador to a major power. As usual, Luce made a spectacular entrance and exit: in her first major speech, just a couple of weeks before the Italian general election, she broke nearly every unwritten rule by eschewing diplomatic platitudes in favor of a pointed warning about the "grave consequences" for voters if they became "unhappy victims of totalitarianism of the right or of the left." Four years later, she resigned for reasons of health: dust laced with lead...
...masse. In the seven debates to date, Gore's combination of self- assurance and command of substance has helped him overcome the misgivings about his age and inch upward in the polls. He is so pleased with his performance that he has added a new line to his stump speech: if elected, he vows to challenge Gorbachev to debate ideology and foreign policy...
...said the unattributed material was in a pile of notes Tong and helpers quickly pasted together for the speech, which she gave, unrehearsed, at the high school. The review, originally published in May, concerned Allan Bloom's controversial book, "The Closing of the American Mind...
Teachers reportedly complained to the high school's headmaster the following day. In preparation for the professor's speech, school members had read various material on the book, and some had read the magazine review...
Tong blamed the plagiarism on her haste in preparing the speech and meeting the many demands on her time since she was chosen professor of the year in 1986 by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, an arm of the Carnegie Foundation...