Now, I'd like to say a few words about the economy.

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Then I like to help the first graders with their reading and sight words.

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The words I heard emerging from my mouth sounded like imitations of human speech.

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These are the words I like to begin each day with, stating my intent out loud.

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Before we begin, I'd actually like to say a few words about something that is of interest to the broader public.

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But it's one of the disability words that I choose to avoid using in that way, like its linguistic friend "psycho".

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Before I close, I would like to say a few words about the idea that "the hydrogen economy" can magically solve our energy problems.

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Perhaps it was the chador, or the stilted words she chose, but when she spoke I felt like a Catholic schoolgirl being reprimanded by Mother Superior.

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Being a writer who makes his living off the writing of words which appear on computer screens, I would kind of like to see words stay for a while.

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