Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Silber said his statement during the board of trustees meeting was a joke. "You can't explain a joke," he added...
...Socialism in its various manifestations is now the world's dominant political and economic ideology," says World Editor John Elson, who edited this week's eleven-page report on the proliferation of the left. To back up his statement, Elson had at hand some formidable evidence: a foot-high pile of reports filed by 24 TIME correspondents around the world who assessed the consequences of the global revolution...
...those prices can be multimillion-dollar battles between commercial and political rivals that escape public notoriety. And in this case there are. The very bitterness of the sugar-pricing controversy can be seen in one of the last official acts by the late Senator Hubert Humphrey, who in a statement accused the Carter Administration of "bungling and ineptitude" and acting "contrary to the expressed intent of Congress" in its sugar policies...
...weakness of Proxmire's case was one reason for Miller's confirmation, another was Miller's own coolness under fire. On the eve of his final appearance before the committee, the usually jovial Textron chief turned uncharacteristically snappish with his aides and prepared a 50-page statement in his defense. Once on the stand, however, he found no need to quote from it; his impromptu answers to Proxmire's queries were enough. When Proxmire opened by saying that to him "the facts ring loud and clear; Textron bribed Khatemi," Miller responded that the Senator was making...
Princess Grace's agent, Arthur Cantor '40, said that no one connected with the Princess ever said that the proceeds were to benefit the Wildlife Fund, and therefore felt that it was not necessary for them to issue a statement...