1.   A pang shot through him and his carefully prepared speech about selling the hunter died on his lips.

2.   And vice versa all those prepared speeches that look good on paper-they never sound right when read from a podium.

3.   She digressed from her prepared speech to pay tribute to the President.

4.   This after all was a prepared speech.

5.   Bush devoted his prepared speech to his budget and tax proposals, now the basis of a tug-of-war in the Capitol.

6.   Daimler Chief Executive Juergen Schrempp said in a prepared speech that further reorganization measures must be taken to reach the kind of profits his company reported in the past.

7.   Earlier Sunday, Cohen largely departed from a prepared speech on the future of NATO to make an impassioned case against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

8.   First the president threw out prepared speeches and replaced them with more pugnacious ones.

9.   Following are excerpts from a prepared speech that Bob Dole delivered on Tuesday to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.

10.   Gov. Bill Graves, who attended the speech, said afterward that Perot did not sound like a candidate because he did not discuss politics in his prepared speech.