Word: speaker
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...Gray hosted a fund-raising dinner at his Georgetown house where, for $20,000, you could get face time with Speaker Newt Gingrich (back when that was considered an appealing opportunity). Gray himself gave $143,910 to political candidates and committees in 1995--more than any other Washington lobbyist. These transactions didn't occur on government real estate, but are they any purer for that? Republican Senator Don Nickles signed a 1990 letter promising G.O.P. donors of $10,000 or more an invitation to the Bush White House and a chance to meet with U.S. trade officials and foreign ambassadors...
...city center a crowd of about 1,000 gathers to hear a speaker demand the ouster of Berisha, but he is preaching to the converted. "Here in Vlora," says Velo Cazin, 44, "all people think as one. Berisha must come down." They also think they can somehow be given back the money taken by the pyramid funds, even though almost every Albanian lost some savings...
Dershowitz's comments were met with applause. "He brought up a lot of points that I hadn't heard before and was a convincing speaker," Mike S. Abramsom '00 said...
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...speaker also received his own does of criticism from several members of the audience during the question-and-answer period following the speech...