Word: statements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gdansk, the 8,000 workers of Szczecin's Adolf Warski shipyard were instrumental in + founding the independent labor union. Speaking to 3,000 workers in the shipyard's cavernous hull-assembly building, a solemn Gorbachev avoided any direct mention of Solidarity, whose underground leadership had earlier issued a statement praising his reforms in the Soviet Union. The closest he came was to congratulate workers for their "full solidarity with our great work of restructuring...
Picasso's life "was, in a very real sense, the twentieth century's own autobiography," Huffington writes at one point. That statement can be seen as the epigraph for the book's failings, as well as for the man it seeks to portray, because the book embraces wholeheartedly the narrow commonplaces which comprise bestselling books today. If there are no heroes, only 15-minute celebrities, then the People magazine school of biography is appropriate for cultural figures...
...early afternoon, Reagan was on a conference call flung from Catoctin Mountain through Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia to his top people. The size of the tragedy was known by then. "I want a statement sent to Iran that we deeply regret this incident," he said simply. Later, when there was quibbling whether "regret" was an apology, Reagan ended the argument. "It's an apology as far as I am concerned. We're a moral nation, and we take responsibility for our mistakes...
Meese's self-proclaimed vindication suggests that the ethical conduct of the nation's chief law-enforcement official should be measured by an absurdly narrow criterion: managing not to be charged with a crime. In fact, says Humorist Mark Russell, Meese's "resignation statement set a new standard for Government service -- 'I am unindicted; therefore I succeeded.' " Ultimately, whether or not Meese succeeds in being vindicated will be left to the court of public opinion...
...captain of the Vincennes, Will Rogers III, came closest to genuine emotion when he began a written statement, "This is a burden that I will carry for the rest of my life . . ." He was unable, however, to end his sentence there. Like good people who cause bad things to happen, he felt the need to explain and justify rather than putting a period after his grief: "but under the circumstances . . . I took this action to defend my ship and my crew." The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral William Crowe Jr., used a similar yes-but formulation...