1. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see Wikipedia).
2. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
3. military, historical, rare The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
Some main ideas/points that were addressed were.
<span>
- Further improvements in providing Americans health care;
- Enacting immigration reform;<span>a smarter national security approach including the War On Terror and the war in Afghanistan (the longest U.S. war);
</span>
- Moving the country off of a permanent war footing while laying out his case for "strong and principled diplomacy"
<span>
- Calling for Congress to give U.S. diplomats some room to maneuver, particularly when it comes to Iran
- And </span><span>improvements to education to ready Americans for the jobs of tomorrow's economy.</span></span>