Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Georgia, canceled a trip to East and West Germany and flew to Tbilisi, where he appealed for calm. A government commission was set up to investigate the deaths, and Georgian party boss Dzhumber Patiashvili resigned along with two other members of the republic's ruling Politburo. In an emotional speech reported on Vremya, the nightly news program, Patiashvili had already admitted that "this is our mutual grief, and we are responsible...
With that statement, Wright raised the stakes of this in-House scandal for the Democrats assembled around him. It is said that Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from...
Students who attended the speech said yesterday that they initially found the idea dificult to accept...
Boston University (BU) may seek to increase the size of its endowment by taking out life insurance on its students and collecting the benefits when they die, president John R. Silber announced in a speech last week...
...speech, Silber said the money collected by the insurance policies could be donated for whatever use student volunteers desired, Gonzalez said...