Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also urged Congress to repeal the embargo on U.S. arms to Turkey. In a strongly phrased statement, he said that the embargo had "weakened the cohesiveness and the readiness of NATO." Ending the ban, said Carter, would be "the most immediate and urgent foreign policy decision" of the legislative session...
...went to the polls the old man fortified himself with his usual morning drink: four parts apple juice and one part cranberry juice. Later, seated in a barbershop near his West Los Angeles office, he held court, conducting interviews, mugging for photographers and reworking his victory speech. A concession statement? Howard Jarvis did not see why he should waste his time. Sure enough, a few hours later, an ecstatic Jarvis stood on the podium in the Los Angeles Biltmore, blowing kisses to his screaming supporters. "Now we know how it felt when they dumped English tea in Boston harbor...
...exquisitely made, the rare-wood inlays done with a skill almost vanished from modern American joinery, every miter and dovetail fitted to perfect tolerances. This pitch of care gives the work an indelible presence. It is quality as metaphor, proclaiming that art, before it says anything else, is a statement of the need to make something really well...
...different than it is here," he says. "Over there they treat you like nothing. The kids come in and they don't even speak. They ignore you. They just point or grunt to let you know what they want," he says. The other workers seem disconcerted by this statement. "Well, it's true at some of these other Houses, students make you feel like...well, like you're working for them," Pat says. But before anyone else can respond to John's criticism, the others break out in praise for Harvard and Lowell House. Then John says, "They...
...Winchester, manager of residential property, also declines to comment, saying, "I really know nothing more than what has already been published." Winchester cites both his present state of ignorance about the proposal, and his intention to apply for a position in the new corporation, as reasons for making no statement at the present time. Several other members of the department could not be reached for comment at all last week. The atmosphere surrounding the announcement is one of shock on the part of others. They are being "temporarily inconvenienced," in the words of one administrator, and say they will...