Word: powerpointing
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...morning in the spring of 2005, the faith working group heard from Vanderslice, who had developed a PowerPoint presentation about her Catholic-outreach program in Michigan. Twenty-five Democratic lawmakers turned up - and they stayed to the very end. She showed them a chart revealing how much more time and money Karl Rove had invested after 2000 in building links to religious voters and how it paid off in voter response in 2004. She made the case that Democrats didn't have to sell their liberal souls; they just needed to become a plausible alternative and engage in a respectful...
...somehow this love affair has never reached the creative level. We have office sitcoms, office novels and office movies, but where are the office pop songs? Rock music has never lacked for zillionaires to romanticize farmhands and factory workers. But what of the John Henrys plowing sweatily through PowerPoint presentations? White-collar employees, who make up 60% of the workforce, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are largely absent from pop lyrics, except for novelty songs and minor works. (The Bangles' Manic Monday mainly proves that the songwriter Prince is more convincing on the subject of sex than commuting...
...Saturday morning in Singapore, and around 20 men have turned up at the Chongfu Primary School to hear Wong Suen Kwong give a talk about fathering. Wong, who heads an NGO called the Centre for Fathering, begins his presentation with a PowerPoint slide declaring his organization's purpose: "Inspiring fathers to be involved with their children's lives." A little way into the meeting, one of the men explains his way of rising to this challenge. He has rigged up his home with over $2,000 worth of remotely operated camera equipment, so that when he's at work...
...math, and that children whose fathers encourage them in sports are more successful in their adult careers. Other researchers have found that children who were fathered well are more tolerant and socially responsible as adults. Precisely the same behavior is shown in the animal world: as part of his PowerPoint presentation, Wong Suen Kwong tells the story of how orphaned young male elephants in a South African game reserve began killing rhinos and threatening vehicles. When older bulls were introduced to the park, he says, the killings and delinquency stopped...
...nothing was taken from the room during the incident. This is not the first time the three residents of this room have experienced a break-in. Earlier this year, an iPod and video camera were stolen from their residence. The robber left a note in the form of a PowerPoint presentation on Dasher’s computer that insulted the roommates and Dasher’s concentration. Since the first robbery, the three roommates have been very careful to lock their door, leaving it open only when they were present in the room, Dasher said. According to Catalano, burglaries...