Word: spokes
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About 60 Cantabrigians spoke during the public comment session at the beginning of Monday's meeting, the vast majority speaking in favor of the provision...
Often going beyond their two-minute allotment, people spoke of how threatened they were feeling as a result of the increasing commercial and high-end residential development...
...West spoke of the dangers of the current period of "transition," where he said the growth of transnational corporations have contributed to the decay of democratic institutions which could serve as controls on wealthy and powerful elites...
What Clinton is proposing is a cold war-style containment of Iraq, a long-range and unpalatable option. In a televised speech at the Pentagon last Tuesday, the President wore a properly dark suit and a somber, clench-jawed expression. He seemed uncomfortable and spoke in a monotone that some of the senior officers listening found "flat" and "uninspiring." Force, Clinton said, was sometimes the only answer...
...paper made public the same day the President spoke reported that the U.N.'s inspectors "believe Iraq maintains a small force of Scud-type missiles, a small stockpile of chemical and biological munitions" and the ability to produce more of them quickly. A U.S. and British bombing strike, Clinton told his Pentagon audience, "can and will leave him significantly worse off than he is now" and reduce Saddam's ability to attack his neighbors. "If he seeks to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction, we will be prepared to strike him again." Clinton even trotted out some cold war rhetoric...