Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House sees it, the big payoff in Bill Clinton's trip to China was being able to speak directly to the Chinese people. But while he spoke in English, the masses were listening in Chinese, and the interpretation was not good. Some Chinese academics in the U.S. who listened to the press conference in Beijing say Clinton's polite, subtly worded protest about the loss of life at Tiananmen Square did not come across to ordinary Chinese. Even worse was Clinton?s centerpiece speech at Peking University, where the State Department interpreter had major difficulties, breaking off sentences...
...contingent on Senate approval. The 100-member body will hold hearings to examine Shattuck's qualifications and then vote on whether to name him ambassador. State Department officials said the process would probably take a couple of weeks and that, until he is confirmed, he is not permitted to speak with the press...
...going back. Gatekeepers and cost controls will always be with us. In the end, each of us is going to have to learn to play the managed-care game. And if we can't get what we need from our health plans, we're going to have to speak up, not just to the nurses and doctors but to our employers as well. After all, they're the ones that picked our plans and pay the premiums. And they're the ones with the financial clout to change the rules of the game...
...also named Manoel (Mastroianni), goes back to the places of his childhood; and an ancient Portuguese woman (Isabel de Castro) meets the French-born son (Jean-Yves Gautier) of her long-lost brother. The old woman is wary of her Francophone nephew--she keeps asking, "Why doesn't he speak our speech?"--until the nephew convinces her, in a heartbreaking scene, that blood is thicker than language...
Longfellow lived in the house from 1837 to 1882. Although he is best known for poems like "From My Armchair" and "Song of Hiawatha," Longfellow was also a Harvard professor who could speak or translate 12 languages...