Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Chairman Alice M. Rivlin last right downplayed the difficulty of controlling the federal deficit in a speech to a packed audience at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics Forum...
...campaign received a real boost from the famous Nixon Kennedy debates, among the first such affairs ever broadcast to a national audience. Currently, it is hard to forget Ronald Reagan's description as the "Great Communicator" when he appears in his element--behind a podium delivering a prepared speech...
...ancient Greek chronicles. Others suspect that they are descendants of troops left behind by Alexander the Great on his invasion of India. The most intriguing theory is that their ancestors were the original Aryans, the prehistoric Indo-European people whose language and light skin linger on in the speech and appearance of modern Europeans. Fascinated by this possibility, Adolf Hitler in 1938 reportedly dispatched one of the Third Reich's racial experts on a personal survey of the Minaro region. It is said that Hitler even considered sending a number of blond German women to have children by these...
...stands of the largest computer companies. Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment, NCR and IBM erected booths that dwarfed those of all but the biggest software firms. Apple's stand featured a 12-ft. scale model of its new Macintosh machine, and Chairman Steven Jobs delivered a keynote speech that tried to cast the event as a shootout between Apple...
...minute for 19 years. The. President has used a similar metaphor. In a speech unveiling his economic program soon after he took office, Reagan dramatized his concern about the national debt, then approaching $1 trillion, by noting that it would take a stack of $1,000 bills 67 miles high to equal that total. When he brought out his new budget this month, Reagan failed to mention that his deficits would push the debt to $ 1.8 trillion by next year and raise his stack of $ 1,000 bills to more than 120 miles...