Word: statements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Landlord Alex M. Steinbergh of the pro-1-2-3 Cambridge Homeowners Association (CHOA) branded as "totally untrue" a statement by referendum opponents that his organization placed an advertisement seeking campaign temps that appeared in last week's Boston Phoenix...
Yeltsin replied lamely that "I never made a written statement" about the episode, but he did not bother denying the Interior Minister's account of his oral one. At another point he said he had been "joking" in his story to police. Moscow gossips speculated that the man of the people might also be a man of the bottle who had been on his way to bestow the roses -- and perhaps other attentions -- on one of his more ardent female supporters. Said a Soviet journalist: "He started out like Huey Long and he's ending up like Gary Hart...
Stacked up against those three white middle-aged men was an anchor team that made a striking symbolic statement. Washington-based Bernard Shaw, CNN's leading political correspondent, is black; Catherine Crier, based at the network's Atlanta headquarters, is a woman. Inadvertently, the choice of Crier, brought in from outside in preference to 150 in-house anchors and reporters, also made a depressing statement about the abiding importance of looks and packaging in TV news. A former college beauty-contest finalist and later an elected Texas judge, Crier, 34, has no journalism experience...
...think it's important to make a statement to Washington to let them know that it's not a state issue but a national issue," said Julia L. Shaffner '91, coordinator for Students for Choice, which sponsored Tuesday's rally...
...reasons behind the NCAA's decision to award an extra semester to Melrose, who transferred to Harvard from the University of North Dakota, will not be clear until the Ivy League releases its official statement later today...