So please remember, apologizing at the beginning or anywhere during a speech is never acceptable or helpful.

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The President's Cairo speech promised a new beginning with the Muslim world.

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Curiously Mr Obama devoted the beginning of his speech to arguing that a plan that contained deep cuts without tax rises was unfair.

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Instead, keep your speech simple, with a clear beginning, middle and end.

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"If the purpose of the speech was to forge a new beginning between the U.S. and the Muslim world, he did that, " he told CNN by phone from London.

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He said in a speech that the U.S. credit markets are beginning to see signs of strains due to the very easy monetary policy of the Federal Reserve in recent years.

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Beginning his closing speech, Mr Altman said the three men on trial had told "a series of outrageous and outlandish lies" to try to escape their own words in the recordings.

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In the end, we may count WCIT as the beginning of a devolution that ultimately leads to multiple Internets, with varying degrees of freedom of speech and other human rights respected.

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President Karzai when he started his second term in office, beginning with his inaugural speech, as he said at the London conference, he emphasized that it would be a pillar of his second term in office.

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