Meantime, the country is looking even further out, geographically speaking, toward the red planet, detailing a mission to send a rover to Mars at around July or August 2020.
Speaking toward the end of the program, Aaron P. Dworkin, the founding president of the 10-year-old Sphinx Organization, said that although minorities have made enormous breakthroughs in a wide range of fields, the number of black and Latino musicians in professional American orchestras remains at approximately 1.5percentt for each group.
Still, it would speak toward a very real advantage that he has.
He pointed emphatically out the window as he spoke, toward the tidy, perfectly irrigated rice paddies.
Ms. Hou also bowed, after she spoke, toward the judge, then toward her family and supporters in the gallery.
President Obama is scheduled to speak toward the end: *Welcome by Matthew Crebbin, senior minister of the Newtown Congregational Church.
Kamala Harris, the junior senator from California and a new member of the body, spoke toward the end.
He was facing away as he spoke, toward the store window, with its charmless view of Coney Island Avenue and the auto-body shops and apartment buildings beyond.
Mr. Bush, who spoke toward the end of a two-day visit to Japan during a three-nation Asian tour, also powerfully endorsed what he called the economic reforms of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
One of his grandsons, Erich Collins Carey, performed "The Ballad of the Great Hugh Carey," and several of his surviving children spoke toward the end of the service, mentioning, among other things, the pancakes he made (and flipped) in the shape of their initials and the Bösendorfer piano he bought from Frank Sinatra.
National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton also told CNN that the two spoke "toward the end" of dinner and that there were no staff present, only translators.
