Word: speech
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treasurer, every week you get up and make your little speech, so everyone knows who you are," Stewart says...
Among those marveling at the Texas Governor's deft move was the reigning master of deft moves, Bill Clinton. Inside the White House on Wednesday, sources told TIME, the President offered a critique of Bush's speech that included moments of grudging admiration and startled recognition. "He saw himself in Bush," says an adviser. "A whole lot of himself." On Capitol Hill, where House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other G.O.P. bosses were enraged by Bush's words, aides to minority leader Dick Gephardt told Hastert's people, "Get used to it. We've been putting up with this for seven...
This second line of spin was not courageous--or true. The speech had been in the works for a month, and principled slaps at the G.O.P. had been in the earliest versions. Indeed, Bush had been saying similar things in milder terms since summer, calculating that he can chide conservatives and woo moderates without losing his right flank. But he knows the primaries aren't over. The only rival gaining on him is Senator John McCain: in New Hampshire he has picked up 13 points in a month, standing at 23% to Bush's 43% in one poll. But McCain...
...coast. On a whim, he can board a plane to British Columbia in search of brown trout and steelheads. Having accumulated a fortune, "I do what I want to do," he says. He wishes the same for his employees, who often refer to his "Let my people go surfing" speech, in which he told them to live in the moment, "as long as the work gets done," and if the surf is up, surf...
This time, it seems, he was warning us about irrational panic. "Greenspan knew about the Producer Price Index numbers ahead of time," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl, referring to the big scary inflation number that ? along with Alan Greenspan?s own Thursday night speech about an "asset bubble" ? threw the markets into an early-morning tailspin Friday. "He warned about wild fluctuations because he knew how the market would react to the bad news about producer prices, and his role is to warn investors that an adjustment in stock prices could come quickly...