Word: podium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Parliament's climactic vote last week, former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou made a rare appearance on the podium. But instead of defending himself against corruption charges stemming from a $210 million bank-embezzlement scandal, he went on the offensive, charging that his accusers were motivated by "mudslinging" and acted out of "political self- interest." The strategy failed to prevent an indictment. By a largely partisan vote of 166 to 121, the legislators ordered Papandreou, 70, to stand trial later this year before a special court on three felony charges -- taking bribes, accepting the proceeds of a crime, and breach...
...faces at the podium rarely match the memories. It is not often that the athlete being enshrined in the Hall of Fame is recognizable in the person standing there, thanking everybody as he joins the other baseball legends...
...Monday morning a resolute President strode to the podium and unveiled a bold plan for a "revolutionary" conventional-arms-reduction agreement. He put forward, with full alliance backing, an imaginative, sweeping proposal to speed up the talks to achieve deep cuts in troops, tanks, artillery and aircraft in Europe. The plan not only met Gorbachev's initiatives but topped them by calling for cutbacks that would erase the East bloc's numerical advantage while slashing the U.S. presence on European soil, all within three years...
...newly constituted Congress of People's Deputies swung into its second week of parliamentary pyrotechnics, a well-muscled representative from Moscow stepped onto the podium. For days, the Palace of Congresses had echoed with a litany of the sins of past regimes. But here was a man, apparently in full possession of his senses, delivering a passionate condemnation of the once unassailable...
...students, eager to have their say in the controversial debate. The council voted to overturn the call for ROTC's return on the basis of unconstitutionality, but when Lee closed debate on another ROTC resolution before allowing anyone to speak, chaos ensued: the crowd began chanting and approaching the podium and a frazzled Lee adjourned the meeting...