Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danehy said last week he would wait "for all the [newspaper] articles to be written "before he issued a statement, but did say he had paid back some of the debt already...
...statement of University policy concerning Iranian students, the International Office spokesman said that "a good many" of the Iranian students at Harvard are facing financial setbacks...
...enough. Eighteen of the oldest and grandest krewes canceled their parades, the first time since the Korean War and only the ninth time in Mardi Gras's 122-year history. "We are not going to let Mardi Gras be held hostage by the Teamsters," read a statement issued by the krewes. "It means a half million dollars and a whole year's work down the drain, plus all the fun we miss," lamented Owen Brennan, president of the famous Brennan's Restaurant and captain of the Bacchus Krewe...
...Peking, Teng assured a visiting Argentine diplomat that the invasion would be "circumspect" and "will not be extended or expanded in any way." That statement seemed to confirm the initial Western interpretation of the possible Chinese objective: a swift, hit-and-run offensive, and then go home. But the Chinese were not yet ready to withdraw. At this point the Chinese shock troops, led by General Yang Teh-chih, China's deputy field commander in the Korean War, had not tangled directly with Viet Nam's crack regular army?battle-tested by victorious successive campaigns in South Viet Nam, Laos...
...that no one has the power to limit a convention's agenda, and no one ought to; he apparently believes the drafters of the Constitution intended the convention clause for the next time Americans wanted to rewrite their governing document. His position depends almost entirely on Article V's statement that the convention will be for the purpose of "proposing amendments." But this is a semantic technicality; if the Constitution had read in the singular, it would prohibit conventions from proposing multiple amendments like the Bill of Rights or the Civil War amendments. Ackerman clearly wants to make a convention...