Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afternoon closing address, Totenbergspoke about the importance of a women's supportnetwork, both in her work as a reporter and as shewas dealing with the extended illness of herhusband, Her speech drew tears from the audience...
...They actually do a lot of recruiting at thesecompetitions," Shmukler said. "Even at theregional level, before we were actually allowed tobegin the competition, an IBM recruiter gave alittle speech, highlighting why IBM was so goodand telling us that if we had any questions aboutworking for them we could always talk...
Members of the new group have also attended a night of Scandinavian folk dancing at a Lutheran Church in Brookline, a speech about Swedish genealogy and a trip to the Bayside International Expo in Boston...
There needs to be a defense against the defense that "homophobia made me do it." Forty states have hate-crime laws, and studies show that added measures can make a difference. Some critics fear that speech will be curtailed in the zeal to get at all those bias incidents classified as "intimidation." But the Supreme Court has found that laws protecting gays don't violate free speech. It refused to hear the case of a preacher in New Jersey who said the state's antidiscrimination law protecting gays violated his First Amendment rights. It's a misplaced fear to think...
This does not, of course, make the Lords a particularly energetic arm of the government. By one count, listening to Baroness Jay's speech last week, there were 76 bald heads, 16 mustaches, five walking sticks, three ear trumpets and one eye patch. The Earl of Longford, who carries an enormous magnifying glass, has been sitting in the Lords for 53 years...