Word: speaker
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...speaker said that one of his main fears for contemporary society is the exponentially increasing population growth. When he was born in 1916 the population of the earth was 1.7 billion people, Nelson said...
...House Speaker Newt Gingrich sternly reminded rebellious House Republicans who are balking on promised GOP tax cuts that President Bush lost his 1992 re-election bid because he reneged on his "Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge. "It destroyed his presidency," Gingrich told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce town meeting broadcast around the country. Gingrich andHouse Majority Leader Dick Armey(R-Tx.) called on voters to put grassroots pressure on the rebel representatives -- 102 of the 230-member GOP caucus -- to "keep our word on theContract." The rebels want to restrict tax credits to families with incomes no higher...
Even House Speaker Newt Gingrich is showing the wear. Having been caught playing a little too loose with the facts in blaming the Democrats for all the ills of public schools and housing, he was reduced last week to carrying a stack of books--with selected passages duly page-marked with stick-on notes--into his daily press briefing to back up his contentions...
Berry adds that a speaker system has alreadybeen included in the commons to facilitate suchactivity...
...truly committed and hyperthermic manage to keep River-Quad relationships alive during the winter. The weather provides an endless topic of conversation; it gives you something to talk about if you do not care to learn about somebody's sperm count or antidepressant abuse over lunch. Besides, the speaker, not the topic, determines whether a conversation is interesting or not. It's simply a question of finding an exciting approach; the subject matter is secondary. To prove that style can salvage or transform almost everything, we give you several ways of talking about the weather. Take them as mere suggestions...