Word: statements
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...CHOICE and civil rights groups, of course, are urging the Senate to block Souter's nomination if he won't go on the record supporting abortion rights or affirmative action. But pressuring Souter about abortion, as leading pro-choice activist Kate Michelman asked in a statement yesterday, will not defeat the nomination: if anything, it will play right into the bandit's hands...
Professors and administrators said they thought Rosovsky's unusual public statement, which was printed in the Harvard Gazette, was a response to the seeming impropriety of his being thought of as a candidate while he holds a seat on the Harvard Corporation. The seven members of the Corporation, which is Harvard's top governing board, are serving on the presidential search committee and will make the final selection...
...showed again just before leaving for the Soviet Union, Kohl has become increasingly adept at handling the spasms of angst about Germany. The immediate grievance was a statement by British Trade Minister Nicholas Ridley that the "uppity" Germans were plotting to take over Europe, and he would just as soon hand over the Continent to Hitler. What made the uproar worse was the widespread conviction that Ridley had only said what Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher thought. But Kohl wisely laughed off Ridley's remarks as "pretty silly," comparing them to his own gaffe about Gorbachev and Goebbels. Ridley was forced...
...Adidas offer broke, the Paris stock exchange halted trading in his company's shares as doubts spread that Tapie could muster the backing from French banks to finance the takeover. At the time he was aboard his 90-ft. yacht in the Mediterranean, but his company put out a statement saying "the total price" he would have to pay for Adidas "will make all those who doubt our financial ability look ridiculous." Some reports put the figure at $450 million. Tapie's bid for Adidas could also benefit from the French government's unofficial blessing. With the tacit approval...
...Wall Street, investors greeted the circumspect statement with nearly unrestrained joy. Greenspan's remarks helped send the Dow Jones industrial average up 37.13 points on Thursday. The Dow briefly touched 3000 on Friday before closing at a record 2980.20, up 75.25 for the week...