Word: statement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...universities have remained silent on this issue. Harvard, in its own statement released two weeks ago, two months into the investigation, states merely it will correct any practices found to violate federal...
...House Ethics Committee investigating the Frank case plans to conclude its deliberations by the end of the year, Sachs said, basing his statement on two meetings with the ethics committee legal counsel and one with the minority counsel...
...heaviest blow to the market came Friday afternoon. In a three-paragraph statement, UAL said a labor-management group headed by Chairman Stephen Wolf had failed to get enough financing to acquire United. Several banks had apparently balked at the deal, which was to be partly financed through junk bonds. The takeover group said it would submit a revised bid "in the near term," but the announcement stunned investors who had come to view the United deal as the latest sure thing in the 1980s buyout binge. Said John Downey, a trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange: "The airline...
After a two-day session, the 21 members of the ruling Politburo issued a statement that for the first time expressed official concern about the recent exodus of 50,000 East Germans to the West. Then, in an unprecedented gesture of conciliation, the leadership acknowledged, "We are open to discussion." Hinting that press and travel restrictions might be eased, the statement continued, "Together, we want to discuss all basic questions of our society...
...once monolithic regime. The confused leadership ricocheted between stern warnings and appeasing gestures. As Honecker greeted visiting Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Yao Yilin, the official news agency ADN warned that "there is a fundamental lesson to be learned from the counterrevolutionary unrest in Beijing." But the Politburo's subsequent statement suggests that many within the ruling elite were drawing different conclusions from the Tiananmen debacle. Reports circulated that the Politburo had demanded an account of the nation's "critical situation" from Honecker. Soon thereafter Honecker postponed a visit to Denmark, fueling rumors that he was struggling for his political...