During Mubarak's regime, government planners unveiled a plan for city development called "Cairo 2050" -- a 260-slide PowerPoint presentation that garnered immediate condemnation for its top-down mandates delivered as mega-projects that would relocate large numbers of mostly poor residents.

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After about an hour of this, Hsieh glided to the front of the room, wearing jeans, a silky black shirt, untucked, and black shoes, and began a laid-back PowerPoint presentation.

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On a more personal level, he also is back in his congressional district in the southeast corner of Wisconsin this week for town-hall meetings, armed with a PowerPoint presentation to buttress his arguments to his many working-class constituents.

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And forget--for at least the time being--that impending PowerPoint presentation on the other side of the world.

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And you could make a case that Microsoft Office's PowerPoint presentation software has too much power--power that is abused by artless employees who use it to craft bloated, incomprehensible presentations.

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HP's PIII-550 machine held its own during tasks like playing a presentation in PowerPoint 97 or a clip using Macromedia Director.

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