Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview after his speech, Bradlee said that the center could contribute to society by studying the way the press deals with race in America and by looking for ways press...especially, the press must continue itsmission of publishing information that it, and italone, determines to be in the public interest, ina useful, timely, responsible manner, servingsociety and not government," he said...
...interview after his speech, Bradlee saidthat although the current administration has beentrying "slightly more desperately to plug leaks,"the amount of leaking has not decreased. "Whatthey've been extremely successful at is whippingan anti-press attitude in the public, reallypress-bashing," Bradlee said...
...every reform there is a loophole. Under current congressional ethics codes, if an organization pays a politician to give a speech, it is permitted to pay him reasonable travel expenses. As a result, reports the citizens' lobby Common Cause, all-expense-paid nights away from home have increased 50% among Senators over the past five years and 200% among Congressmen. One example: Minnesota Senate Republican David Durenberger and his two sons, 21 and 23, were able to wrap a free and entirely legal six-day Caribbean vacation around the Senator's informal meeting with Puerto Rican health officials...
...speech, Jackson is full of Bo, given to admiring himself in the third person. Yet he stammers slightly. "But you can be a millionaire," college teammates urged him, "and live the dream." He told them, "Bo's going to follow his heart." Its first stop was Memphis, home of the Chicks, where hitters right out of the egg can begin striking a gingerly acquaintance with curve balls. After 45 at bats, the most famous rightfielder in all of Double A had four hits (.089). "I've always got off slow in baseball," he says. "That's the only sport...
...when Gerald Ford fell off a plane ramp and Americans began wondering about their President. Had he forgotten to wear his football helmet back in college? Could he walk and chew gum at the same time? First, Ford nonchalantly knocked a tape recorder off the lectern while making a speech. Next, he and Edward Bennett Williams crashed into each other as the Washington attorney was leaving the podium. Once when a plate smashed to the floor, Ford's spokesman Bob Barrett took the microphone to tell the room, "That wasn't him. Believe me, it wasn...