1.   The president will deliver a speech about schools.

2.   Although no one could reasonably expect that the president could deliver on all those promises, taken together they composed a vision for America for the approaching new century.

3.   And yet no one wants to hear a president deliver a speech on this subject, ever again.

4.   Barely weeks before his visit to Chile, the president was delivering the same encouraging pat on the back to Africans.

5.   A suddenly embattled president delivered a State of the Union address filled with optimism to a Congress and nation uncertain whether he can retain the political strength to govern.

6.   After the president delivered his remarks, he invited Megawati to speak, but she appeared to wave him off.

7.   Bush met briefly with Hu two months ago in Beijing, when Hu attended a speech the president delivered to university students.

8.   But the Democratic president also delivered a few digs of his own.

9.   He noted that presidents deliver the speech to both houses of Congress, the cabinet and the Supreme Court justices, and it is broadcast to the nation.

10.   It is time for the president to deliver a formal progress report to the nation on what has been done so far to ward off future terrorist attacks.