Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard when he charged that "some people are getting ripped off" in their college education. He urged parents to visit a college for several days and attend a dozen classes before sending their child to that school--something he didn't even bother to do before writing a speech of potentially national significance. Bennett has obviously decided that Harvard should be a principal target: this summer he cited Harvard's drug policy as an example of liberal leniency, and he has stated that he would rather give his son money to start a business than send him to Harvard...
While President Reagan declared in a Baltimore speech, "Let's not look back and place blame," U.S. arms specialists worked on a package of proposals for Max Kampelman, the chief U.S. negotiator, to present to Viktor Karpov, head of the Soviet delegation in Geneva...
...best country in the world. It is not true that there is no work. You just have to want to find it, and they'll help you and there will be work. And there is such an abundance of things, and there's freedom." At the end of his speech, he said, "Now how could I, an old Jew from Minsk, ever think that I would see Canada and Florida and Spain and Israel...
...budget straitjacket annoys many lawmakers because they can no longer dash off the sort of heroic measures they once passed effortlessly. After Philippine President Corazon Aquino made a stirring speech to Congress appealing for more American aid, the Senate comically tried and failed twice to come up with a $200 million honorarium. After first hunting fruitlessly through foreign aid accounts and then trying to siphon funds from a Central American appropriation, last week the Senators dug the money out of the foreign-operations kitty...
...Governor for his civil rights leadership in the South and handed him a verbal bouquet, a thank-you for "gracing the White House with your passion and intellect and commitment." In turn, Carter thanked his successor for his "generous, gracious and thoughtful" remarks. The warmth Reagan conveyed in his speech, added Carter, made him understand "more clearly than I have ever before in my life why you won in November 1980 and I lost...