Word: powerpointed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nasty race. Reading the first outlines of Romney's plan in the Boston Globe, Kennedy decided the Republican Governor was serious about the issue, and he told his staff to reach out to Romney's advisers. Before long, Romney was in Kennedy's office in Washington, taking his PowerPoint slides with him. "Had Senator Kennedy said, 'This is a lousy idea, and I don't want anything to do with it,' I would have been back at square one," he admits...
That outcome was far from certain. Romney and his PowerPoint traveled from one end of Massachusetts to the other. But as a Republican, Romney had very little leverage with the legislature, where the GOP's representation was so small it was less a minority than a cult. What's more, the senate and the house had very different ideas of what they wanted to do. As the two chambers squabbled, the Medicaid money was in danger of slipping away...
...grant me a divorce," says the mother of two. She lost $515 playing baccarat. A well-dressed engineer says that he's considered kidnapping children for ransom in order to pay off $500,000 in gambling debts. Tan has heard these stories before. He listens patiently and delivers a PowerPoint presentation about coping with addiction. "Don't read the racing papers and don't carry too much cash," he warns. "And stay out of the casinos...
...that relatively small surcharge hardly seems sufficient to overcome the seductive pull of casinos and their multimillion-dollar marketing budgets. "The gambling industry is so big," says Poon Yan-chi, director of the Macau center where Tan delivers his PowerPoint presentations on the evils of gambling. "It's like David and Goliath." David sometimes wins. But that...
...Flash forward several years and Gore’s an Oscar-winning, PowerPoint junkie. He’s included in Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” under scientists and thinkers. By all accounts he’s single-handedly credited with teaching an entire nation about global warming—and the Nobel committee agrees...