Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern voice-messaging system was the common telephone-answering machine. But now, instead of talking to a simple tape recorder, people are conversing with a computer at the end of the line. At the heart of the new systems are special-purpose computer chips and software that convert human speech into bits of digital code. These digitized voices can then be stored on magnetic disks and retrieved in a flash, just like any other piece of computer data...
What really distinguished the Soviet move was its adroit timing. It came just a day before George Bush was to deliver his first major speech on U.S.-Soviet relations and 18 days before a NATO summit meeting at which the alliance will be hard pressed to heal the U.S.-West German split over SNF negotiations. Moscow moved swiftly, and with apparent success, to keep the rift open. Shevardnadze used a scheduled trip to Bonn Friday afternoon for meetings with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher to tout the Soviet proposal. He added a touch of salt...
Finally, on Wednesday, April 26, The Crimson reported the Reverend Jesse Jackson's speech at the IOP Forum. Buried deep in the article was the fact that Jackson, despite the anti-ROTC protest outside the IOP, gave his support to the presence of ROTC units of college campuses. One would think that the fact that Jackson, an ardent liberal and champion of homosexual rights, held such a view would merit greater attention. Come on guys, if he had come out against ROTC, you certainly would have run yet another blaring headline such as "Jackson Rips ROTC" or "Jackson Condemns Homophobic...
...Administration is convinced that Gorbachev has not yet gone far enough in toning down the Soviet Union's aggressive international behavior to make bold American initiatives worthwhile. In a speech last week Baker praised the Soviets for such moves as pulling their army out of Afghanistan and beginning unilateral cuts in European tank and troop strength. But he also complained that in other ways, Soviet actions do not match Gorbachev's pledges of "new thinking." For example, he chastised Moscow for stepping up aid to Nicaragua and continuing to produce five times as many tanks as the U.S. Though Baker...
...senior Administration officials inferentially warned against rushing into agreements predicated on the idea that Gorbachev will succeed in reforming Soviet society. Robert Gates, No. 2 at the National Security Council, asserted in a speech and article in the Washington Post that "our view of the Soviet Union cannot be based on the personalities of its leaders but on the nature of the Soviet system itself. We face a deeply entrenched philosophy and system of government that has depended on repression at home and promoted aggression beyond its borders. Gorbachev is challenging some aspects of this system, but even he acknowledges...