Earlier this month former prime minister Ehud Olmert - who during his tenure in office offered the Palestinians more than any of his predecessors - could barely get a word in edgewise above the clamor of students at the University of Chicago cursing him as a war criminal.
Mr Verhofstadt's crime, it seemed, was that he talks too much: at previous joint appearances, he had not allowed Mr Prodi to get a word in edgeways.
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Okay, but how, on a small budget, do you get the word out in a place as noisy as Manhattan?
You know, to listen to what I have to say instead of her trying to get the last word in.
Maybe Pinterest cannot save your sales this year, but it can probably help you get the word out in addition to other social networks where you communicate with customers.
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"One big word tends to get in the way of anyone successful in the U.K., " says Stuart Rose, a seasoned retail executive who stewarded the sale of Arcadia to Green.
It's free for phones that run Android 2.0, and word is that they're in talks with Apple to get it on the iPhone (word that brought a big hit to the stock of both GPS giants, Garmin and TomTom).
Now, in terms of how to get the word out, nobody is more effective than you.
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Ship and plane captains all over the area get word of the whale location in near-real time through e-mail alerts, text messages, faxes and pager messages.
His colleague, Wolf Blitzer, stopped questioning a pundit to talk by phone with a Louisiana parish president (basically, a county chief executive) who was desperate to get word out that a levee in his parish was about to fail.
To know how to get word-for-word the exact sound bite or quote you want in the final story.
Travis and others are trying to get the word out to voters to fill in the ovals and not to circle them, and not to vote for more than one candidate per race.
As a Marketing Associate for a brand-new start-up, I recently launched a crowd-sourced funding campaign to bring in contributions from interested funders and get the word out about our website and mission.
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While younger start-ups may embrace the art of holding a contest featuring video submissions to get strong word of mouth out and about in the community for their brand, other businesses considering throwing a contest may be harder to persuade.
To get exact word-for-word quotes or sound bites into the story that were planned in advance.
In other word we have to extract the lie from the interest rate in order to get it back to telling the truth.
Almost any application, at least -- I couldn't get it operating in Google Apps' browser-based word processor.
Officials were traveling by boat and car to get the word out, and water was standing in some homes as of Tuesday, county spokesman Eric Keaton.
They could provide working communications equipment to Darfur's villages so that in the event of an attack word could get to peacekeepers quickly.
When an idea dies in Madrid it takes two generations for word to get to Managua.
In order to remedy the problem we need to get the word out there, and start to have a wider spectrum of seafood which we consume on a much larger basis.
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You need to identify exactly what it is that you do as a business and you need to capture it and encapsulate it in a quick, easy and memorable soundbite, because you rely on people to spread the word of what your business does in order to get more business.
"We said, 'We're going to roll the dice and the take chance it will be critically well-received and get an award accolade that would keep it in the ether and, through word of mouth, more people would go to see it, '" says its star Bradley Cooper.
Campaigns like to give advance word of their plans to news outlets in a bid to get coverage.
Part of the problem is that the latest paper tends to get highlighted in the public sphere in a way that makes it seem like the final word, as if it supercedes all prior knowledge and delivers revealed truth.
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And our last word in business today brings to mind the meal that I used to get on an airline that I will not name.
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