There are a lot of standard impersonal documents dealing with world trade (a Portuguese law-firm presentation, engineering specs for the Chin Shan Nuclear Power Plant in Taiwan) and trains (a description of "track-to-earth resistance test" for rails, a memo about last spring's PATH fare increases).
I'm glad I didn't end up at that consulting firm, assembling presentations to advise large companies on whether to buy other large companies.
And: "Where do I buy some of those logs?" Afterward, as other firms gave presentations, he sat down in a restaurant with his team, and, sensing victory, said, "One thing that can attract you to a girl is if she's very attracted to you.
Drawing on theories of surveillance and interaction ritual, we explore the incentives (disincentives) to analyst participation during the question-and-answer session (Q&A) which concludes firms' results presentations.
Representatives from Reilly Partners, a search firm, gave a presentation to union members in Las Vegas.
"I never see a human being do that move who's not running for office," says Jeffrey Davenport, a speaker coach who works for the presentation firm Duarte.
In the autumn of 2008 Sequoia Capital, a big venture-capital firm, produced a presentation for the companies in which it had invested that included a slide with a picture of a gravestone.
AT A recent conference for offshore wealth managers in Geneva, Basil Zirinis of Sullivan & Cromwell, a law firm, began his presentation with a discussion of events in Iraq, where Islamist fighters were advancing on Baghdad.
Windows Phone's senior product manager, Derek Snyder, had a nasty moment when his demo of the operating system's speech recognition facility briefly went awry in front of an audience of thousands at the firm's keynote presentation.
In last week's City Council study session, City Manager Jane Brautigam said that there is no firm date for presentation of a proposal; indeed there is no assurance that there will be one.
In a separate presentation, a firm called Cognoptix announced data for its own eye test, detecting amyloid in the eye's lens.
