Word: spokes
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Kenneth Apfel, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, spoke yesterday on the history of social security and the implications of reform at the ARCO Forum of the Kennedy School of Government...
Apfel also spoke about the increase in baby boomers, which he said is perpetuating a myth that the growing number of people dependent on Social Security will level off with that particular generation...
...Strom spoke of educators' ongoing struggles toteach Holocaust history properly. Adult educationand the first amendment must be priorities if theHolocaust is to be properly discussed, she said...
Reading "Beyond The Sound Barrier" about the new Miss America, Heather Whitestone, and the controversy in the deaf community over her choice to speak rather than use American Sign Language brought to mind a similar uproar. It occurred when I spoke rather than signed at the 1988 Academy Awards while presenting the Oscar for Best Actor. I was labeled "offensive" by the deaf community, and my family and I endured years of mean-spirited criticism. My response to those who disapprove of Whitestone's choice is that all of us have dreams to fulfill and each one of us takes...
...talk but I hate to interrupt Groucho. I spoke in public last year in Portland when I asked for a raise in salary but I don't think anyone heard me. I make a practice of speaking every time Chico makes a grand slam, so you can look for another speech in 1937. Regret I can't get Zeppo in this wire. HARPO MARX Culver City, Calif...