Word: eventer
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...event was joyful but also fiercely competitive. When the music stopped, students piled onto chairs in a struggle of survival of the fittest...
...Miss Sweetie Poo is always great," said event organizer Marc Abrahams, "but Isabel is really something." Isabel has appeared in ballet performances and a television commercial, although she enjoyed the role of Miss Sweetie Poo the most...
...used Wilson’s journeys to teach her students from a “global perspective.” Still, she hoped her students would take from the voyages something more than the experience of simply watching a sporting event...
That was music to the ears of many Tories, straight and gay, who have been trying for years to modernize their party. In 2000 Christina Dykes launched Absolutely Equal, a conference event that ran for a number of years and was supported by several minority-rights organizations, in an attempt to broaden her colleagues' focus. "After the bad defeats in 1997 and 2001, the party closed in on itself," she says. "We were just talking to ourselves." Matthew Parris, now a prominent writer and broadcaster, served as a Tory Parliament member during the Thatcher era and remembers when organizers...
Picking her way through gyrating bodies to deliver a welcoming speech, Shadow Equalities Minister Theresa May looked as if she'd dressed for the sort of genteel event more commonly associated with the Conservatives: a church fete or a sedate evening of sherry and nibbles. It was May, in her former job as Conservative chairwoman, who coined the epithet "Nasty Party" in 2002 to warn her colleagues that their moralizing traditionalism was turning off the wider electorate. The rift between the Tories and gay-rights supporters was especially wide following the passage of legislation by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...