Vital Speeches of the Day articles from December 2000

Vital Speeches of the Day archives from December 2000

BANKING ORGANIZATIONS MONITORING AND RESPONDING TO RISKS.
December 15, 2000... Good morning. It is a great pleasure for me to join America's Community Bankers for your winter conference. I would like to take the opportunity today to talk with you about some of the structural changes in the economy and financial markets...

PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AMERICA.
December 15, 2000... Thank you, and good afternoon everyone. As I prepared to speak with you today, I reflected upon the distinguished roster of speakers who have stood before The Commonwealth Club over the last 97 years. I weighed all the vital issues and...

INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL OF OUR WORKFORCE.
December 15, 2000... Good evening, and thank you for that introduction. It's always been nice to be introduced as the person who headed up the Minnesota Super Bowl Committee, but I've been looking forward to the day when I would start being introduced as the...

PRIZE AND EMBRACE WHAT IS AMERICA.
December 15, 2000... Good afternoon. Thank you, Susan. And thank you to the Women's City Club of Cleveland for this wonderful award. I am truly honored, not only for having received it, but also for receiving it from such a prestigious organization one whose...

THE STATE OF THE PET INDUSTRY.
December 15, 2000... Thank you for inviting me to wonderful Barcelona to talk with you about a topic that is near and dear to my heart: pets. In fact, more days than I'd like to think about, the "person" I like best is my very own pet, a five-year-old Golden...

A CORPORATE STRATEGY THAT LEVERAGE THE BEST PRACTICES.(open-source information)
December 15, 2000... Thank you. It is a particular pleasure to be here this morning to address the Washington College of Law on the subject of the "Strategic Use of Open-Source Information." The open-source world represents a major challenge to the U.S....

TOO MANY CURE-ALLS IN RECENT YEARS.
December 15, 2000... My first message to you tonight is to bring the warm and personal greetings of our standard-bearer, the next President of the United State -- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Before leaving Sacramento yesterday, I talked with him on the telephone, and...

Zimbabwe, Africa And American Interests.(Tom McDonald address)(Transcript)
December 1, 2000... TRMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY, DAUNTING CHALLENGES Address by TOM McDONALD, U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe I am delighted to be back in Cleveland and to have the opportunity to speak here at the City Club about Zimbabwe, about Africa, and about...

A New Era Of History.(Van Dusen Wishard address)(Transcript)
December 1, 2000... YOU HAVE ENTERED THE MOST DECISIVE THREE DECADES IN HISTORY Address by WM. VAN DUSEN WISHARD, President, World Trends Research Delivered to the Emery Reves Memorial Lecture, Reves Center for International Studies, Delivered to The...

Mining In The New Millennium.(Richard L. Lawson address)(Transcript)
December 1, 2000... THE PITFALLS AND THE PROMISE OF THE DAYS TO COME Address by RICHARD L. LAWSON, President, National Mining Association Delivered to the 2000 Mining Lawyers Conference of the National Mining Association, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September...

Coerced Abstinence.(Joseph D. McNamara address)(Transcript)
December 1, 2000... THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE Address by JOSEPH D. McNAMARA, Retired Police Chief of San Jose, California, and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University Delivered to the Rotary Club, San Mateo, California,...

The Presidential Tax Debate.(Charles Kadlec address)(Transcript)
December 1, 2000... MYTH VS. REALITY Address by CHARLES KADLEC, Managing Director of J&W Seligman & Co. Delivered to the Harvard Club, New York, New York, October 26, 2000 Thank you Larry for that kind introduction. Thank you for joining us here this...

Educating Prisoners.(Timothy J. Penny address)(Transcript)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... LOCK THEM UP, BUT DON'T THROWAWAY THE EDUCATION KEY Address by TIMOTHY J. PENNY, Senior Fellow, University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute Delivered to the GED graduating class, Federal Medical Center, Rochester, Minnesota, Friday,...

The Road To Utopia.(Strom Thurmind address)(Transcript)
December 1, 2000... WHERE THE TWO MAJOR PARTIES ARE LEADING THE COUNTRY Address by STROM THURMOND, Senator from South Carolina Delivered to the Yale Political Union, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, February 17, 1961 Since confession is good for...