Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news agency's English-language service clicked back to life, teasingly printing out a test line again and again: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs." Then came an equally puzzling message. The Central Committee members had "acquainted themselves" with the text of an Andropov speech, reported the TASS dispatch. But had they heard Andropov speak? When the text of the address finally clattered over the wire, all doubt was removed. "I deeply regret that because of temporary causes, I will not be able to attend the session of the plenum," wrote Andropov. He went...
Shagari, a former schoolteacher, was well aware of the economic mess and intended to use his mandate to do something about it. Only two days before the coup declaration, Shagari went on the air with a budget speech announcing tough austerity measures, including a reduction of state subsidies on a wide range of goods and services. In the confusion and uncertainty following the latest military announcement, no one could say whether Shagari's attempts at reform had failed to go far enough to satisfy some of the generals-or whether those measures had perhaps gone...
...economist or an environmentalist no wiser than his colleagues can make it big if he has vast self-confidence and the gift of articulation. Politicians who become national figures must be glib enough to operate under what Russell Baker calls "television's refusal to allow thought before speech." Even those who scorn publicity usually pursue it when they have a book or film to promote. Goodbye, Columbus made Philip Roth known; Portnoy's Complaint made him a celebrity. When a new novel appears, Roth unbends a little, but, as he told PEOPLE magazine, he dislikes questions about home...
...reforms already in place, Redesign's appeal turns on personality, act institutions. Important with extensive rules that will bind and families the relationships between people, Keverian has said he will have his new candidacy on new blood and a healthy outlook. As he told the House in a recent speech, "My dream was that as Speaker I would provide access, I would not be dictatorial, I would be thoughtful. I would be compassionate...
...Providence College graduate, a former All-American basketball player, used his speech to defend his commitment to the school system and race relations, two issues that put him on the defensive in the campaign...