On these occasions, presentations were prepared but given the following week.
Merrion goes less for cheesy jokes and innocent flirtations and more for crude propositions, devastatingly explicit confessions and, on occasion, the presentation of his own bodily fluids in small containers to unsuspecting guests.
On every occasion, the presentation of events by Israeli spokesmen is geared to giving Americans and Europeans the impression that Israel wants peace with the Palestinians and is prepared to compromise to achieve this, when all the evidence is that it does not.
The occasion is the presentation of the George Washington Book Prize, a $50,000 cash prize presented to the best book on America's founding era.
THE BESSIES (Sunday) The 21st annual New York Dance and Performance Awards -- nicknamed for Bessie Schönberg, a downtown dance fixture and teacher of choreography -- are an occasion for the presentation of prizes but also a party for a whole dance community.
The occasion was the presentation of winning work in this year's Young Scientist Prize competition, in which researchers from around the world enter their studies about things molecular and smaller.
The occasion was a presentation last month to Wall Street analysts about WorldCom's deteriorating financial performance, and the unveiling of a desperate plan to inject life into its sagging share price by separating consumer services from the parent company.
The occasion was the presentation of the European Commission's first-ever "Alert Mechanism Report on Macro-economic Imbalances", ie economies that are listing so heavily for one reason or another (international indebtedness, trade deficits, etc) that they need to start bailing and plugging holes, lest they soon need injections of ballast.
The occasion for the presentation was a partnership with Marvell, whose extremely low-cost Moby tablet design surfaced a few months ago.
However, it's not 9/11 but World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) that will occasion Groff's presentation, "Love in the Time of HIV: Poetry, Spirit, and Survival" at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City.
