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  • At the lecture's start, Ambassador Verveer set the stage on the global status of women and girls.

    Stephenie Foster: What Do Jim Grant and Melanne Verveer Have in Common? Stephenie Foster 2011

  • Here is the lecture's provocative final thought: Is it possible that by imitating European policies on labor markets, welfare and taxes, the U.S. has chosen a new, lower GDP trend?

    The Disappearing Recovery Daniel Henninger 2011

  • Yes, I've occasionally ventured onto Facebook or Google Reader during a lecture's duller moments, but I figured if I wasn't distracting myself, I'd probably just space out anyway.

    Hack College: How Should We Deal With Computers in Classrooms? Hack College 2011

  • At the lecture's start, Ambassador Verveer set the stage on the global status of women and girls.

    Stephenie Foster: What Do Jim Grant and Melanne Verveer Have in Common? Stephenie Foster 2011

  • Those who browsed the Web performed much worse on a subsequent test of how well they retained the lecture's content.

    Does the Internet Make You Dumber? 2010

  • That amount, says the 33-year-old student, Craig Rogers, is the price he puts on the lecture's consequences of "mental anguish, pain and suffering, loss of concentration to study for finals, and emotional distress."

    Sex In Sacramento 2008

  • While some students were dazzled by the overwhelming publicity surrounding the class, others thought the intense media scrutiny and controversy over the lecture's off-the-record ground rules only disrupted the integrity of the classroom.

    How's He Doin'? 2007

  • The latter is particularly helpful for understanding the shift because it consists of two "layers" — an original "pre-shift" lecture written in 1967 and some "post-shift" passages interpolated into the lecture around 1972 that reformulate the lecture's thematic concerns (death, time, and history) in explicitly rhetorical terms.

    Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 2005

  • This effort to punish a critic states my lecture's argument far more eloquently and forcefully than I ever could.

    From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007

  • The lecture's objective is to arouse international interest in the World Summit for Sustainable Development, to be held in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

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