Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Purdy declined applause at the conclusion of his speech, quickly descending from the podium. But as he walked away, a Harvard Book Store representative responsible for bringing Purdy to Harvard as part of a distinguished author series spoke...
Edelman, a champion of increased rights for children and the poor, spoke at the ARCO Forum to the 125 women attending the symposium and about 75 Harvard students...
...dinner where Jiang spoke, I sat next to Liu Mingkang, a former Chinese central banker who now heads a large financial corporation. He knows well the vagaries of Chinese freedoms; during the Cultural Revolution, he spent 10 years banished to the countryside, where he learned English by listening to the Voice of America on his secret transistor radio while working in the paddies. Now he is planning for his company to set up an online system for stock trading and banking transactions. "As economic freedoms expand," he says, "we are inevitably securing more social freedoms and the ability to exchange...
...conference room on the Universal lot, Steven Spielberg showed a couple of guests a printed card. On the card was "The Vow of Chastity"--Ten Commandments of simplified filmmaking, as proclaimed in the Dogme '95 manifesto by directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. Spielberg spoke enthusiastically about Dogme and said he'd like to make a film under its rules...
...slight man, the 22-year-old native of Jakarta spoke through an interpreter about the conditions in Nike sub-contracted factories...