Word: banquet
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...cannot conserve our way to energy independence," Bush told a dinner banquet of the Electronic Industries Alliance in Washington on Tuesday, offering the latest advance peek at the long-term energy policy that will surely be driven by upping supply - emphasizing energy exploration (especially natural gas, which powers most electric plants) and the expansion of infrastructures to deliver power across the nation - rather than reducing demand...
...Sunday evening I sat down with twenty-two of my classmates and president-elect Larry Summers to discuss the future of Harvard University. Gathered around a banquet table at the Charles Hotel, we broke bread and at the same time broke ground on the issues that are most vexing for undergraduates at the College: advising, student/faculty interaction, the core curriculum, the “living wage.” During the course of our two-and-a-half hour conversation pedagogical ideals were debated and moral standards called to task. For a brief moment, students’ voices found...
...donors become more important, so direct-mail operations will become even more aggressive, and the "bundlers" who can enlist 100 or so donors from their company or union will have even more clout. In place of the coffee for 20 donors who give $50,000 apiece will come the banquet for 500 donors who give $2,000 apiece. The hustle never stops...
...Napster has been trying to keep its users around long enough to kick off its own pay-for-play system in June with an investment by Bertelsmann. Now, with an evidently impatient Bertelsmann getting in on the MusicNet deal, Napster will be a beggar at that banquet - executives at the new service are already imposing stringent conditions about security and legality on Napster's eventual inclusion...
...first two, Dan Bireley and the Young Gangsters and Nang Nak, both broke box office records in Thailand. Nang Nak went on to tour the European festival circuit, where Nonzee was proclaimed something of a wing-collar art house director, giving Thailand a seat at the ongoing banquet of honor being served up to Asian filmmakers. Indeed, the new movie is being produced by Hong Kong's Peter Ho-Sun Chan, who directed The Love Letter for Dreamworks in 1999, and Nonzee is pushing the production schedule to wrap in time to exhibit the film at Cannes...