Word: speaker
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...graduate students picketed on the streets and staged a rally at the New Haven Coliseum which featured Jesse Jackson as a speaker, said Stephanie D. Plasse, editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News...
Peng, the featured speaker in a panel discussion entitled "Taiwan Tangle," addressed a crowd of about 150 in the Kennedy School of Government...
...fund-raising reception for the young Rhode Island legislator took place at his father's posh Virginia home. Speaker after speaker praised the candidate's support of important issues and predicted great success in his quest for higher office. He "will be a major force in progressive national politics for at least the next 20 years," said an emotional supporter. "So will I," boomed the father, to laughter. The candidate: PATRICK KENNEDY. The father: TED KENNEDY...
...most texts (which used to be called books), narrator can also be a tricky word because the third-person voice doesn't necessarily have to be the one telling the story all the time. Speaker is a good substitute. Persona works in poems. But when there are a lot of characters, it's best to refer to everyone by name, but only if you make sure to explain how the naming of people functions in the text...
...gets a posh office, a lavish expense allowance, a devoted staff and unlimited postage? Answer: any former Speaker of the House of Representatives. Congress doled out these open-ended perks to departing Speakers back in the 1970s so that they could conclude their "official business." But somehow not one has ever managed to do so. According to figures disclosed last week by the House clerk, U.S. taxpayers will have to cough up $385,577.52 this year for staff members who will keep JIM WRIGHT and TIP O'NEILL comfortable in their home states. Not to mention CARL ALBERT of Oklahoma...