Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chernenko: Oh Chebbie, we should sign that man up for Kremlin speech-writing; he has such a catchy turn of the phrase. But what a dumkopf! Doesn't Buckley know that that kind of posturing only caters to the peaceniks and the detentists? I can already hear the shrieking in the halls of Harvard, about blacklisting and freedom of speech and all that other liberal clap-trap...
Chebrikov: Oh yes I know sir, the liberal press will be able to use this, just as it was able to use Reagan's "evil empire" speech to foment unease among the moderates and people who want to talk with us. Did you notice, something may even be wrong with Reagan...
President Reagan, in a speech before the National Forum on Excellence in Education late last year, called for a return of discipline to make American public schools "temples of learning, not drug dens." The Justice Department heeded that call last week. In a friend-of-the-court brief, Justice urged the Supreme Court to establish that students do not have full protection of the Fourth Amendment against warrantless searches and that school authorities may search students for drugs or any other evidence of school violations on grounds of "reasonable suspicion...
...talk of "a special mission of both German states to 'limit the damage' done by the new round of the arms race in Europe." East Germans recognized the placement of those three words in quotes as a pointed criticism of Honecker, who used the phrase in a speech last fall about the NATO deployment...
...action is likely to tie IBM more closely than ever to Europe's computer industry. The company provides about 100,000 jobs there, and last year it paid more than $1 billion in taxes, making it one of Europe's ten largest taxpayers. In a London speech last May, Opel promised substantial new investments after the suit was resolved...