Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...president spoke as Gorbachev was convening a meeting of a radically reordered Warsaw Pact in Moscow to review the weekend summit...
Dukakis and Keverian spoke over the weekend and said they plan to consult other officials this morning to effect a compromise...
...Professor Peter N. Kiang '80 of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, who also spoke at the forum, said that many of the criteria used to evaluate the success of Asian-Americans are misleading. Supposedly objective measures of success, such as median family income, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and grades can give a mistaken impression of the true position of Asians, he said...
Although Administration aides spoke of considerable "arm twisting" by Bush, Cheney's turnabout reflected political and budgetary realities more than a major rethinking of U.S. defense needs. Faced with a lingering $110 billion deficit, Congress long ago abandoned Pentagon plans to increase defense spending each year. Overdue as Cheney's order may have been, the armed services responded by leaking hastily assembled cut lists, studded with base closings and hard-to-cut weapons systems that are immensely popular on Capitol Hill. Conspicuously absent from the lists were such big-ticket items as the Navy's Seawolf attack submarine...
...aggressive ex-fighter pilot, Olympic swimmer and pillar of the Phoenix business community was being sworn in before the House Banking Committee, his right hand trembled noticeably. His tanned face flushed, his 6-ft. 5-in. frame slumped, Keating, 66, demanded that television cameras be turned off. Then he spoke: "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully exercise my constitutional prerogative and privilege . . . and decline to answer questions here today...