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...would run for re-election this year. Despite his long insistence that it would be self-defeating to run for Governor in 1986 and then turn around and run for President, he did not rule out a try for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988. Standing behind a lectern in a high- ceilinged, wood-paneled room near his office at the state capitol, a composed and confident Cuomo said, "I have decided to run for Governor. I have no plans to run for the presidency." When reporters pressed him about 1988, Cuomo tap-danced around their questions...
...nervous silence fell over the audience as the General Secretary paused to catch his breath. Throughout the opening day of the 27th Soviet Communist Party Congress, Mikhail Gorbachev, standing behind a polished wood lectern emblazoned with a hammer and sickle, had hectored and preached with passion and zeal. Caught by a momentary fit of coughing, he inhaled deeply and scanned the thousands of faces that filled the plush red seats before him. Offhandedly, Gorbachev remarked, "I am coming to the end." Hesitantly at first, then in mounting waves, appreciative laughter swept through the cavernous Kremlin Palace of Congresses...
During the past month, Latin American leaders have gone on a lectern- pounding campaign for concessions from their lenders. Brazilian President Jose Sarney, among others, took the appeal to the U.N. General Assembly. Declared Sarney: "Brazil will not pay its foreign debt with recession, not with unemployment, nor with hunger." Peru's President Alan Garcia Perez, whose country owes $14 billion, has threatened to pull out of the IMF unless the agency gives his country more breathing room. Mexico's President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took a similar, if less militant, stand. Even before the deadly earthquake hit last...
Puccio, standing stiffly behind a wooden lectern ten feet from the jury, relentlessly disputed the central tenet of the prosecution's case: that insulin had been used to cause Mrs. Von Bulow's two comas. With increasing vehemence, he punctuated his argument with the phrase "No insulin injection!" as he recapitulated testimony by the defense's medical experts...
...lectern, Kushner opened with "Whether or not you agree that the world needs a humor consultant, I think you'll agree that it can use one less attorney" and got a laugh. He went on to point out that humor was important in sales because "people pay more attention to humor. Maybe you don't think so, but remember the class clown? We always listened...