Word: statements
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...HUPD as well other local police jurisdictions are aware of the event and will work cooperatively to ensure that next Wednesday night/Thursday morning is safe for everyone involved,” HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano wrote in an e-mailed statement...
University President Drew G. Faust praised the dedication Waxman and Adams have shown on the board in a statement...
...wait a minute. That didn't happen. Reid did make a statement; it was filled with platitudes, anchored by an emotional anecdote. It was the sort of statement that seemed old a year ago, when the health care reform death march began. It did nothing to advance the negotiations, or to discomfort the Republicans. It followed a very similar statement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It was followed by a raft of near identical statements by the other Democrats - almost all of them sclerotic committee chairs with far more seniority than debating skill. They produced a Woodstock of heart-tugging...
...Harry Reid surgically exposed the emptiness of a key Republican debating point, using the classic political tactic of jujitsu: he allowed the force of the opposition's argument to carry it into the abyss. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, an obstetrician, had delivered a passionate - and seemingly well-informed - statement about the need for medical-malpractice reform. "O.K., Senator, you win," Reid responded. "Look, we Democrats don't see malpractice the same way you do. Our traditional supporters among the trial lawyers hate it, of course. And the Congressional Budget Office says it would save only about $5 billion...
...League, part of South Africa's governing coalition, went even further, claiming the treatment of Zuma was fueled by racism. "These British racists continue to live in a dreamland and sadly believe that Africans are still their colonial subjects, with no values and principles," the league said in a statement. "They believe that the only acceptable values and principles in the world are British values of whiteness and subjugation of Africans...