Word: spokenness
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...Still, it was hard not to admire the speech. The verbal miscues for which the President is known seemed, for the most part, absent. The speech?s simple and plain-spoken language served him better than the loftier rhetoric of, say, his inaugural address or his stem-cell decision talk. He seemed emotional but steady, confident but not cocky. "This will not be an age of terror," was simple and surefooted. His paeans to bipartisanship were obvious but also necessary and well done...
Benjamin L. McKean ’02, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) which has previously spoken out against Nike’s labor policies, said he had not heard about the Nike-Harvard appparel deal but was nevertheless concerned about their business partnership...
...likes. It was completely disrespectful to his supporters. I told Koizumi: 'Choose between your family and your political career.' It was decided that they would divorce." Koizumi got custody of their two sons; as is common practice in a Japanese divorce, the boys have never since seen or spoken to their mother. Miyamoto, pregnant at the time of the divorce, has a third son?whom Koizumi has never tried to meet. Touchy-feely? Not in his private life...
...Winners ELLEN DEGENERES Ex-lover Anne Heche says comic was the best lover she ever had. But then she also claimed to have spoken with God in a secret language GEORGE SPEIGHT Fijian coup-maker campaigns from his prison cell and wins a seat in Parliament. Hey, that makes him kind of like Mandela and Havel! THE CONCORDE Supersonic planes get O.K. for return to service. Never mind what the global economic meltdown has done to CEOs' travel budgets Losers BRITNEY SPEARS Slammed by animal-rights activists for plans to bring cheetahs onstage, she totes a snake instead. Like...
...Soft spoken and slight, with earnest dark eyes and short, carefully combed black hair, Shah Mohammed knew, as president of HIS, that he would be called on to lead the Muslim community at Harvard through this tragedy...