Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They're both graduates, and they're a very original pair who run a successful NPR program," Shukla said. "They speak to a wide audience which includes a very intellectual audience and the common guy on the street...
...contrast, the reaction to the selection of Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan to speak at this June's Commencement has been rather quiet. None of my fellow seniors seems terribly upset by Greenspan's selection. No one denies that Greenspan is one of the most powerful people in the world today. (In a previous column, I compared his influence to that of International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch, well before Greenspan's selection was announced.) But no one seems terribly excited to hear Greenspan either. This is worrisome, given that the audience at the address-technically separate from...
...slow progress of the air war, Serbs were solid in their defiance, and Milosevic surely felt stronger than ever, cast as the nation's plucky savior. The bombing effectively silenced most of his opposition, and he shut down or intimidated anyone else who still had a mind to speak out. Proudly painting targets on their shirts and buildings, the young of Belgrade rallied for Slobo in the same streets and squares where protesters had marched two years ago to throw him out. Serbs who danced in jubilation on the wreckage of a U.S. F-117A gloated a few days later...
...director might have one day with, say, Bill Gates: "Well, yes, Mr. Gates, it's true that a boy with 1600 SAT scores who was first in his class and the star of the football team--particularly a boy with that sort of talent on the cello, not to speak of the courage and presence of mind to save six nuns from drowning during a hurricane--makes a strong candidate, but before you go away disappointed about your son, let me tell you about this little auction option we happen to have...
...Truth is the first casualty of war!" Milosevic announced with a flourish (and a subliminal wink, as if to say, "Ah, you are surprised that I speak in your cliches?"). The Serbs at that moment were blasting Sarajevo apart and "cleansing" the countryside of Muslims. Milosevic told us smoothly, "There is no Serb aggression...We are merely protecting ourselves." Besides, the Croats "cleansed" several hundred thousand Serbs 50 years before...