Word: speech
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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After Stith's speech members of several minority groups spoke to the crowd, emphasizing the theme of tolerance...
...Acid rain. A Harvard study last March found that some rain over Boston reaches the acidity of battery acid. Sixty thousand lakes in North America are threatened. President Bush stated in a campaign speech that "the time for action on clean air and acid rain is now." The Clean Air Act of 1990 would do something about this problem (the 1977 act did not), but the President says he may veto...
Whether this initial rush of rage fully reflected public opinion was unclear. A TIME/CNN poll taken by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman after Bush's televised speech showed that 77% of Americans thought the deficit a "very serious" problem. When asked in general terms about the austerity program, 54% said they opposed it, compared with 36% in favor. But when asked if passing the package was more important than their objections to some of its parts, respondents favored enactment by a clear majority...
...says Carrie. To dig their way out of the financial hole, Debbie went back to Broadway, starring in the musical Irene. Carrie played in the chorus behind Mom. By 16 Carrie struck out on her own and went to London to attend the Central School of Speech and Drama for 1 1/2 years. "It was the only unobserved time in my life," she recalls...
...argument is strongest when it sticks to narrative. But after a few tantalizing glimpses, he is back in his room, reading the island through government documents. The result is scarcely more distinctive than trying to interpret the U.S. through the self-contradictions and bromides of a Ronald Reagan speech. Ultimately, Cuba: A Journey is not really about Cuba, or a journey; it is rather an appraisal of the Cuban system by a man who might have come to the same conclusions without ever leaving home...