Word: soft-spoken
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...event was billed as a discussion on public service, but while the soft-spoken governor did encourage the audience to explore government, most of his comments focused on his own policies--from his support of Governor George W. Bush's presidential campaign to his desire for greater bipartisan cooperation...
...Epps has been an important presence at the College, to some a symbol of Harvard itself. Presidents and deans of the College have come and gone, while Dean Epps has stayed in University Hall. He is an unmistakable figure on campus and a constant presence at student events. The soft-spoken, bow-tied dean is a student of Harvard's history and a guardian of institutional memory...
...discovered this on a recent Thursday when I was officially principal of P.S. 154, on West 127th Street in Harlem. I learned it from Elizabeth Jarrett, 41, the school's everyday principal, a soft-spoken former special-ed teacher who has turned the school around from one that was getting failing grades only three years ago to one that is bright and cheerful and scoring above the state average...
...known as College Marketing Group) was still a company that hawked textbooks to college professors. He took the firm public and used the proceeds to invest in then obscure companies such as Lycos and Booklink--the latter of which he would later sell to AOL for $70 million. The soft-spoken, laid-back Connecticut native and Ohio Wesleyan University math major has never looked back, riding the trend to a personal net worth of $2.5 billion. Regrets? He passed up a chance to invest in eBay, the wildly successful Internet auction house. Wetherell figures that oversight cost him $4 billion...
...wait for the first human infant to be produced, in secret, by a Richard Seed or his offshore equivalent? Ian Wilmut, the soft-spoken scientist who started this noisy revolution, says no. The father of three (one of them adopted), he speaks passionately of honoring the individuality of the child. Human cloning, he says, should be banned...