On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company's biggest event of the year, its F8 developer conference in San Francisco, by wasting no
time addressing the elephant in the room: the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
With sexual - misconduct allegations hovering over Hollywood for months, and almost everyone dressed in black to support the Time's Up initiative opposing sexual harassment, the late - night host
addressed the elephant in the room right when he came onstage Sunday night.
Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store, spoke at Digital Book World 2014 and immediately
addressed the elephant in the room by telling a story from his book about Jeff Bezos instructing Amazon staff to go after publishers with bloodlust, the way a cheetah would hunt a sickly gazelle.
According to Panel Chairman and former Chief Scientist of Australia, Ian Chubb, the Reef 2050 Plan needs a significant overhaul to
directly address the elephant in the room: warming oceans, the main contributor behind coral bleaching.
Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford did not shy away
from addressing the elephants in the room — Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo — Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, saying that the fallen executive is not «going to stop the show.»
We might as
well address that elephant in the room right off the bat; just ahead of Chef «s SXSW world premiere, Favreau took the stage and dubbed it a very personal film and it's easy to see why he calls it that.
It is also — and let's
just address the elephant in the room — a difficult film to review on its own merits, thanks to this summer's revelations of a rape accusation in Parker's past, and to Parker's awkward handling of the subject in recent interviews.
But none of the proposals presented to the public for
debate addresses the elephant in the room: We have two independent entities making uncoordinated decisions about the future of our public school system.
The national schools commissioner Sir David Carter discussed ethical leadership, Dame Alison Peacock tacked professional learning, and Professor Becky
Allen addressed the elephant in the room: why are so many teachers thinking about leaving?
Microsoft's head of Xbox Phil Spencer spoke at the GeekWire 2015 summit for an interview with GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop who wasted no
time addressing the elephant in the room, the PS4's massive sales lead over the Xbox One.
I compiled a list of reasons, but I could not in good faith put forth an article about why purchasing the Nintendo 3DS was a good idea
without addressing the elephant in the room: The New Nintendo 3DS, which is currently available in Japan and Australia, and is apparently due for a release here sometime next year.
Now, before I explain what to do for the seven minutes, let
's address the elephant in the room.
Of course, I can't finish up without
addressing the elephant in the room: These days, being «green» no longer makes someone a hippie — it means he or she is a responsible member of society.
Now I must
address the elephant in the room, and that's performance.
Let
's address the elephant in the room upfront: bid testing, contrary to popular belief, need not cost an arm, leg and business in order to be run properly.
Ok, time to
address the ELEPHANT in the room.
Few seem willing to
address the elephant in the room.
But what I don't understand is why no one is
addressing the elephant in the room.
It's taken too long to
address the elephant in the room..
I'll nurse my bruises later, right now let
me address the elephant in the room: Our shameful thrashing (yes it was thrashing.
Finally, we have to
address the elephant in the room or should that be Villan.
Now to
address the elephant in the room — why am I calling something that so obviously looks like salad a «bowl»?
Speaking at an annual Democratic Party dinner in New Hampshire last night, former Vice President Biden drew a groan from the crowd when
he addressed the elephant in the room, saying: «Guys, I'm not running.»
Beyond all that, the government has yet to
address the elephant in the room — is mass surveillance actually the route down which our country should keep hurtling?
But until
they address the elephant in the room — free movement and membership of the EU — people will still think they're running away from the big issue.
At a fringe event about winning the female vote, Total Politics decided to
address the elephant in the room...
But he said the plan does not
address the elephant in the room: Counties run many expensive programs that are mandated by the state, but the counties are forced to come up with much of the money themselves.
I'm happy to oblige, but after two or three tries, I want to
address the elephant in the room: It's not the hormones they think that are causing the problems.