Word: podium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson appears, and the hall goes wild. Bradley and Zirinsky are determined to collar the candidate right after his speech and conclude that he will probably exit from the right. They stake out their position near the podium. Then Heyward orders them to move to the left side. "Tell them no," snaps Bradley...
...will step down next year and is widely mentioned as a possible appointee in a Dukakis administration, made the transition from dean to political mogul last night. He was among the select guests of the Dukakis family seated in a VIP box located to the side of the podium. Allison and the Dukakis family and entourage, which numbered approximately 50, were joined in the box by the families of vice presidential candidate Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen, Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Kirk, and a rotating set of speakers, such as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...
...Democrats, always on the cutting edge, consulted experts who assured them that a pastel-colored podium would be more pleasing to the eyes than red, white and blue. Somebody forgot to tell Atlanta business owners, however, who have covered the town with the traditional colors...
...words were inflammatory, but the audience took them in stride. Referring to the discredited era of Leonid Brezhnev, who died in 1982, Vladimir I. Melnikov, an obscure official from the Russian republic, declared from the podium at the 19th All-Union Communist Party Conference, "People who in previous times actively conducted the policy of stagnation cannot now be on, or work in, central party or Soviet organs in the period of restructuring...
...unnamed delegates from the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan were guilty of accepting bribes. When the conference's credentials chairman said it would take time to subject the charges to official investigation, there were shouts for Ogonyok Editor Vitali Korotich to substantiate them himself. Korotich gamely came to the podium and explained that he could not name the alleged culprits because their party membership protected them from public prosecution. Then, with a flourish, he turned and handed Gorbachev what he said was his evidence...