Word: speech
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Democratic Front Runner Walter Mondale had expected to open the 1984 election year with a media blitz. He would attack Ronald Reagan's "ad-lib foreign policy" and outline his own supposedly more cohesive alternatives in a hard-hitting speech to the National Press Club in Washington, B.C. Then, in a DC-9 loaded with reporters, he would aggressively tour the South, where he hopes to wrap up his party's presidential nomination by mid-March. But when he stepped to the microphone in Washington, Mondale joined a media blitz for another candidate. "All of us are proud...
...other black African nations combined. Unlike many other African countries, it has a sizable class of educated men and women who are well trained to run its government, industry and armed forces. And notwithstanding the occasional clampdowns imposed by the military, Nigeria has had a tradition of boisterous free speech, freewheeling politics and an unbridled press...
...there is a limit to the size of the memorial, so tourists will not get a chance to see everything from Ronald Reagan's career. Missing will be the interviews and speeches he gave throughout the '60s and '70s suggesting that Social Security no longer be compulsory (In 1966, he said, "Social Security ought to be voluntary." In 1980, he said, "I never suggested that Social Security should be voluntary"). Gone will be the suggestions that the United States re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan ("I misstated"), his endorsement of a unified Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, and the campaign promise...
...hundred). Another very large room will reveal 15,000 General Motors employees, whom G.M. 'itself never knew existed, slaving away on federal paperwork.' Posted across one wall will be the complete set of 44 OSHA regulations for climbing a ladder which Reagan alluded to in a 1978 speech. Up until now, the agency has only published and enforced...
...speech on "Easygoing Nihilism: The Contemporary University Education," Bloom charged that students are unwilling to appear intolerant of other cultures by taking strong moral stands...