Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alternately he proposed that the seniors hand President Bok a statement to read at Commencement announcing that they would divide up Harvard's $1.4 billion endowment among themselves and Harvard alumni...
Later in the day he posted in the clubhouse a statement to the effect that I, under favorable conditions, had driven a golf ball 489 1/2 yards, no particulars being given. The result was that for a short time, until the facts were known, I enjoyed the undeserved reputation of being a tremendous driver, and my fame spread as far as Boston...
Prince Saud was even more incensed when Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, issuing a statement in Tripoli, denounced Sadat as a traitor and added that "the real cause" behind Sadat's behavior was "the hypocrites and chameleons who nurture treachery and finance it." That sounded like an attack on the Saudis, who are giving at least $1.5 billion a year in aid to prop up Egypt...
...China came and went last week without any parley taking place. Hanoi claimed that as many as 10,000 Chinese troops still occupied parts of its border area, and thus refused to discuss peace terms. Peking insisted that it had withdrawn completely from Viet Nam; U.S. analysts accept that statement, but they also believe that the Chinese have slightly altered the old border for tactical military purposes-"a matter of a hundred yards here and a hundred yards there," as one official...
...about twenty minutes of this, I broke in and asked what seems now a rather academic question. I did feel elated at having been able to get something in edgewise, but it turned out to be a decidedly minor triumph. When I finished, she paused and said that my statement had been "superb...