I. Introduction
- There is a practice at special dinners and banquets of assigning places for people to sit – there are protocols that hosts and hostesses must observe when they make the seating assignments – they must take into consideration business relationships, family relationships, personal relationships – they must
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I. Introduction
- How many times have we all been in situations in which the right words fail to come to us? – something happens, or someone says something to which we want to make a response – we want to say the clever thing that will bring a laugh
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I. Introduction
- We love to talk about the weather – how about this weather?, we say – and that can mean anything we want it to mean – it can mean that we think the weather is beautiful and wonderful – it can mean that the weather is awful
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I. Introduction
- Samuel Clemens, whom we know better as Mark Twain, once said that clothes make the man; naked people have little or no influence on society – I do not want us to consider the humor of the statement or the obvious sexism (Clemens was a person of
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I. Introduction
- A couple of years ago, the CEOs of the three largest automotive manufacturers in the United States went before Congress to testify about the difficult financial situations for their companies – as it turned out, two of the companies actually asked for money, but the move may
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