Word: statements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spokesman for the group, William O'Leary of East Boston, read a statement demanding several concessions from MIT, including the right to renovate three gutted houses next to the camp. MIT has announced plans to demolish these buildings, which have been vacant for 14 years according to the Tent City activists...
...increases and spending cuts that would reduce the budget deficit in the current fiscal year by at least $23 billion, more if possible. The President, who before Black Monday had strongly resisted calls for such a conference, got the sessions going by meeting with the legislators and issued a statement urging them "to put aside partisan rivalries and work together for our nation's future." Said Pennsylvania Democrat William Gray: "The atmosphere is charged to get something done...
...disapproval). The draft also urged a study of allowing women to become deacons. After some behind-the-scenes lobbying, the final version mentioned none of those points. Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, a U.S. spokesman on the issue, was reduced to expressing "happiness at the vagueness of the final statement," apparently suggesting that a more forthright document could have been worse. "The synod," he said, "was not ready to work out the differences between men and women, their specific tasks, and implementation according to local culture." The synod did insist upon the "dignity of women," but this was nothing more...
...addition to appearing personally and havingdifferent advocates, both students gave the AdBoard more thorough statements about the case, thesources said. While the two students had turned ina joint one-page statement for their firsthearing, Shustorovich's second statement was 10pages long and Pierce's second statement was fourpages...