Word: grandstanding
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Speth recognizes that the very act of addressing problems through treaties is itself an evasion. The approach moved environmental issues into a province where negotiators have proved willing to settle for minimal requirements, constituencies are scattered and governments can grandstand. Indeed, most environmental treaties have the same effect as presidential commissions--they assuage the public's anxieties while forestalling real action...
...India will awake to life and freedom." So declared Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech on the eve of his nation's independence from Britain. In New Delhi the next day, the celebrating crowd was so huge that Nehru, the new Prime Minister, had to fight his way to the grandstand, at one point knocking off the turban of a man who had gotten in his way. He was worried for the safety of his friends, the last British viceroy Lord Mountbatten, who was a cousin of England's monarch, and his wife Edwina, with whom Nehru was secretly enamored...
...this Alisha hid her eyes in her mittens, and the Sharks reserves sank deep into their parkas on the bench. Someone in the green plastic chairs of the grandstand bellowed, "Get some black...
Still, the technology has been slow to evolve, and IBM nearly killed its speech-recognition project in the early 1990s, when the company was struggling. "We had no product," Kanevsky explains. So he made a grandstand play. He connected recognition software to a telephone and was able to read the words of callers from around the world without the help of a human transcriptionist. "It helped push the morale of speech researchers higher," he says, and impressed senior managers enough to save the project...
...Opening Day is Gossip Guy’s favorite day of the year. There’s nothing quite like the snap of lies against horsehide, the roar of the rumors, and vendors in the grandstand hawking hot innuendo...