Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real objective of Administration policy, said Shultz in a speech in San Francisco on Friday before the Commonwealth Club of California, is not to overthrow the Sandinistas but to modify their behavior. The Administration wants to force the Sandinistas to make four major concessions: to stop serving as a Soviet surrogate and expel the Soviet and Cuban advisers at present in the country; to reduce the size of their armed forces, now numbering more than 100,000, to the size of those in neighboring countries (18,000 in Honduras, 49,000 in El Salvador); to "absolutely and definitively stop their...
...were cheaper to build new offensive weapons, he said, it would just set off a new and dangerous round in the arms race as each side looked for ways to overwhelm the other's defenses. "If the new technologies cannot meet these standards," said Nitze in a speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, "we are not about to deploy them...
...high point of Thatcher's visit was her speech before Congress. The last British Prime Minister so honored was Winston Churchill in 1952. Dressed in a black suit and flowered blouse, Thatcher received a two-minute standing ovation as she stepped onto the podium. After noting that Churchill had enjoyed a "special advantage" because his American mother had given him "ties of blood with you," Thatcher drew laughter by dryly adding, "Alas for me, these are not matters we can readily arrange for ourselves...
...risks involved. Though Barney Clark had survived 112 days with the device, he had suffered unexplained brain seizures that left him depressed and disabled. Schroeder, too, was struggling with serious neurological problems, caused primarily by a stroke that occurred 18 days after his implant surgery, leaving him with impaired speech, loss of short-term memory and weakness on his right side. Schroeder's recovery was further hampered in January by seizures (a common complication of strokes) and, in recent weeks, by fever that ranged as high as 105 degrees...
...because the union seems its representing someone besides them media, the public. And that dangerous game for the unions to what happens when the boss decide brave public opinion--and couldn't he, they do it all the time--if the union can live up to its speech and promises? Perhaps it same labor leaders who were proper of a brave new left negotiate sweeping concession just those familiar, corrupt bureaucrats the post have done. Perhaps they'll for public office. They might realize, at long last, that they can't she free live from their roots, and began agair...