Word: powerpointing
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...each school they visited, the students gave a short PowerPoint presentation—created in conjunction with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions—followed by a question-and-answer session, according to SAS President Deena S. Shakir...
...much as those of the students who take advantage of lecture recordings to skip class. In the absence of recorded lectures, conscientious students are effectively penalized when they miss class for reasons such as illness. While recordings may lack some of the benefits of live lectures, they far surpass PowerPoint slides and borrowed lecture notes as study aids. Lecture videos have long been available online for some Harvard courses, but audio downloads have an additional advantage for students. As a cheaper alternative to video downloads, audio downloads allow smaller courses and departments to offer lectures online when the costs...
...Pentagon, which is calling for the largest defense budget since the cold war, has been floating scary threats lately. TIME has obtained a copy of a PowerPoint presentation that senior officers have been showing to groups around the U.S. warning that failure to stop Osama bin Laden and his ilk would have the same "consequences" as Europe's appeasement of the Nazis before World War II. Bullet points describe possible U.S. economic depression and Washington being forced into an "accommodation" with terrorists. Skeptics question the timing of such predictions. Says security analyst John Pike: "The Pentagon has a long tradition...
...White House's Roosevelt Room is wired for PowerPoint presentations, and most officials also bring handouts when they brief George W. Bush and his inner circle. But Budget Director Josh Bolten, who has spent months walking the President through a problem that could dramatically affect his legacy, sticks to colorful charts on old-fashioned easels. The lights stay on, so nobody dozes off, and there's no paper to wander through. It's dense material, after all. "I keep everyone's attention focused on what I want them to focus on," Bolten said...
...That was generally true, although the PowerPoint presentations of all but one other speaker were available on the website of the National of Bureau of Economic Research, which hosted the two-day conference and had made one of the two recordings of Summers’ speech. But in any event, the president’s office controlled the tapes, and releasing them was Mass. Hall’s prerogative...