Word: statements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determining who would best mold the young girl into an adult, the judge did not grapple with any elements of human nature except those that can be clearly specified in a contract, assessed and sold. In such a context, his statement that he was influenced greatly by what he believed to be the Sterns' greater ability to explain the circumstances of Melissa's birth and upbringing makes sad sense...
...more cautious language, several days later. Immediately following the leak, telephone lines at blood centers and American Red Cross chapters were flooded with calls from panicky transfusion recipients, and top public health officials from New York State, New York City and New Jersey issued a statement questioning the wisdom of the CDC proposal...
...sexual behavior" is the "main cause of the spread of AIDS," reads one memo from the Department of Education to HHS. The memo goes on to say that an earlier and more explicit HHS draft on AIDS education "resembles a dog-care manual. Not guidance for people." In a statement of principle accompanying the plan's release last week, Bennett wrote, "Young people must be told that the best way to avoid AIDS is to refrain from sexual activity until as adults they are ready to establish a mutually faithful monogamous relationship." Responded Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman of California...
Outwardly, Deaver maintained his equanimity in the wake of the long expected indictment. In a prepared statement Deaver asserted, "I am confident that I have not committed any perjury." He took comfort in the fact that he was not accused of more substantive conflict-of-interest charges, a development that led Deaver and observers in the Washington legal fraternity to suspect that Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. does not have a particularly strong case against...
Would he now admit that the arms sales, whatever the original motive, were a mistake? "I would not go down that same road again," said Reagan, the first time he had made such an explicit statement. But he quickly added that "I thought ((the initiative)) was right in the beginning" and even insisted once again that the arms deals might have succeeded in getting more hostages released if the arms-sales story had not "leaked...