Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amused. C.E. ("Cowboy") Snodgrass, a Killington carpenter, says he was fired from his job at a condominium construction site when he refused to remove the sticker from his truck. Snodgrass is suing, and the American Civil Liberties Union argues that his dismissal violated his right to free speech. In another action, Killington has filed a libel suit against the Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus newspaper for publishing a cartoon showing two skiers riding a ski lift carrying toilet plungers instead of ski poles. The caption: "Uh-oh, looks like the snowmaking machines are clogged again...
...said Treasury Secretary James Baker last week as he announced an ambitious U.S. scheme to rescue the Third World's floundering debtor countries. His speech was the main event for 9,000 moneymen who gathered in the South Korean capital of Seoul for the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The bankers and Finance Ministers welcomed his message as a breakthrough. For the first time the U.S. is willing to throw its weight behind an effort to solve the dangerous debt problem. Said Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, a managing director of the First Boston investment firm...
...council rightly bills itself as Harvard's first working student government. It is a body with an amazing capacity for work: it has drafted exhaustive reports on everything from shuttle-bus scheduling and summer storage to freedom of speech, seeing its work quoted in one of President Bok's open letters...
Last summer, University officials tore down "Shantytown", a mock structure erected as a "symbolic expression of the divestment movement." Johnston said that activists are currently taking Cornell to court, claiming that the university's action is a violation of their free-speech rights...
...meeting, Parker and Freshman Coach Ted Washburn give what those who attended termed "a very well done, convincing speech," inviting athletes to give rowing a shot...