Word: speaker
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...only did Lee not pursue the facts himself, he didn't even give anyone else the opportunity. Although Lee called for someone to speak in favor of an amendment that would withhold the council's endorsement of ROTC until it abandoned its anti-gay bias, he allowed a speaker opposed to the amendment to use all of the time allotted for debate. "I should have told him that he was out of order...I wasn't listening," said Lee. "Clearly it was an error on my part...
Seton Hall basketball coach P. J. Carlesimo had been scheduled as the banquet's guest speaker, but was forced to cancel in order to purse contract negotiations at the University of Kentucky, an offer he declined on Monday...
...betting now among relatively impartial experts is that the full House will eventually vote on some kind of sanction against Wright. They also expect the ballot will be very close. If that is the case, whether Wright wins or loses becomes almost irrelevant; either way, his effectiveness as Speaker would be undermined. Like Ed Meese, he would probably hang on to his job for a while for appearances' sake, then quietly resign (no one expects him to leave the House). The Speaker still has time to turn that glum scenario around, but he will have to mount a more convincing...
NATION: The odds lengthen against Speaker Jim Wright...
Events in Iran are often fueled by forces that are not immediately apparent. Thus it was difficult to know quite what to make of the verbal missile fired last week by parliament Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during a prayer session at Tehran University. Several "big American spies," he announced, had been arrested and would be punished for plotting to overthrow Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...