Word: statement
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What is at issue here is not government suppression but government subsidy. Mapplethorpe's work is not banned, but showing it might have endangered federal grants to needy artists. The idea that what the government does not support it represses is nonsensical, as one can see by reversing the statement | to read: "No one is allowed to create anything without the government's subvention." What pussycats our supposedly radical artists are. They not only want the government's permission to create their artifacts, they want federal authorities to supply the materials as well. Otherwise they feel "gagged." If they...
...Silverman, Ambassador-designate to Barbados and seven other Caribbean islands, has no college degree and no job history. In the statement of qualifications she submitted to the Senate, she cited her experience "planning and hosting corporate functions" for her husband, a New York City industrialist. In 1987-88 she donated more than $180,000 to Republican candidates...
...business leader lecturing the U.S. central bank about the dangers of letting the economy slump too far: "It is prudent for the Federal Reserve to recognize the risk that such softness ((in the economy)) conceivably could accumulate and deepen, resulting in a substantial downturn in activity." Yet the statement came from Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who went public with a surprisingly frank assessment last week that, at least for the moment, a recession has replaced inflation as the leading threat to the U.S. economy. In his midyear report to Congress, Greenspan confirmed that since early June, the Fed had been...
Stevens promptly issued a statement from jail categorically denying police claims. "I am not the Green River killer. They have made me out to be a very bad person, and I am not," he declared. His lawyer Craig Beles says his client "is a colorful character, but he's no murderer." Students and faculty at Gonzaga, who describe Stevens as quiet and studious, were stunned by the allegations that he may have lived a secret life. Chris Bales, a former Gonzaga law professor who taught Stevens criminal law, characterized him as a "gentle fugitive" who posed no threat to society...
...welcome the opportunity to serve as the director of the Bunting Institute," Ladd said in the statement. "I remember the critical difference the supportive and stimulating years of my own Bunting Fellowship made in my career and I look forward to opening the doors to such opportunity to women in all parts of the world...