Word: statement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threat of government repression. It is deeply rooted in our national psyche that to be truly patriotic entails risking one's life. But the idea also dawned on many minds, in the dark years when people were deprived of their lives in humiliating circumstances, why not make a statement before you perish? Such is the attitude that hundreds of thousands of Chinese are now taking in the wake of Saturday's tragic massacre in Beijing...
...these 16 nations prepare for their summit, we've sent out word to all our branches to send a supporting statement for the Bonn position, which we will deliver to the Bonn mission at the United Nations. We're calling for the abolition of all short-range nuclear weapons, East and West, and we're also proposing reduction of Warsaw Pact and NATO forces, both nuclear and conventional, to 50% of NATO's present strength. That is a first step to a united and disarmed Europe. I'll be going to Brussels myself, joining European members of the peace movement...
...liaison office in Beijing (1974-75), the President seemed as unsure of the situation as anyone. Bush met with an old tennis-playing crony from his Beijing days, Wan Li, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Afterward, Bush issued a cautious statement that appeared both to back the students, by saying that the U.S. encouraged the worldwide growth of democracy, and to encourage the government, by vowing that he was committed "to expanding normal and constructive relations" with China...
Horror stories regularly fill court dockets. In a New York federal court, a translated undercover wire quotes a Cuban defendant: "I don't even have the ten kilos." The defendant means kilos of currency (Cuban cents), but the translated statement suggests kilograms of drugs. In a New Jersey homicide trial, the prosecutor asks whether the testimony of a witness is lengthier than the translation. "Yes," responds the Polish interpreter, "but everything else was not important...
...article on a recent Undergraduate Council Services committee meeting, I was reported to have said that all "ROTC students are economically disadvantaged." In fact, this view was expressed by someone else at the meeting, and is a blanket statement with which I cannot concur. Certainly, there are students in ROTC who cannot afford to attend Harvard without scholarships the program provides them. It was to help these students, some of whom receive smaller scholarships than they otherwise could and undergo great hardships as a result, as well as those who cannot afford to attend Harvard...