Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, Galbraith said that he has "grave doubts about the effect of one speech" and said that he expected only a small shift towards his view points expressed...
Although the various "contests"--among them "Best Anecdotal Speech," "Most Mixed-Up Statement of the Trickle-Down Theory," and "Best Rags-to Riches Story"--drew between them only three entrants, the presentations elicited substantial laughter from what appeared to be a predominantly anti-Reagan audience...
About 10% of Americans between the ages of 65 and 75 are senile. The President clearly is not. Doctors watching the debate saw no signs of slurred speech or outright memory loss, the usual telltales. They did suggest that Reagan should be regularly tested for mental acuity. Though Reagan promised in 1980 that he would undergo testing for senility if elected, so far he has not. Earlier this year he told an interviewer that he would take the tests "only if there was some indication that I was drifting ... Nothing like that has happened...
...into combat barefoot." Guerrilla spokesmen also charge that government air and artillery attacks against rebel-held areas have eroded their civilian support, often at a heavy cost in human life. Nonetheless, U.S. and Salvadoran intelligence have monitored more than 100 reports of guerrilla movements since Duarte's U.N. speech, a possible indication that the F.M.L.N. was gearing up for action...
...used was cited last week by the West German newsweekly Der Spiegel. The publication withdrew, for a no-cash settlement, a libel suit that it had brought in Britain against the defunct newsweekly Now. The London-based magazine had reprinted in 1981, a few months before it folded, a speech by its owner, Sir James Goldsmith, in which he accused the left-leaning Spiegel of having been manipulated by the KGB while researching a series of 1962 articles that challenged the integrity of Franz Josef Strauss, then West Germany's Defense Minister. In last week's exchange...