Word: podium
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Remember this scene? San Diego, 1996. Bob Dole steps up to the podium for his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention. He looks lean and hungry, the faithful are cheering, so midway through the speech, Dole stares into the cameras and decides to uncork. "To the teachers' unions, I say, when I am President, I will disregard your political power," he bellows. "If education were a war, you would be losing it." Dole says he is not talking "to the teachers, but to the unions," but it doesn't matter. Democrats seize on Dole's screed and cast...
...beginning of his address, Clinton expressed his appreciation to share the podium with Ho, noting that MIT had selected two types of speakers for the Friday morning commencement: "the scientists and the scientifically-challenged...
...From his podium in front of the imposing brick facade of Aldrich Hall, Rubin outlined the mission he foresees for the HBS class...
This "family" feel was reinforced at last weekend's national Red Cross convention. As the keynote speaker, Dole left the podium with a microphone to circulate among the banquet tables, dazzling those in attendance by rattling off statistics and anecdotes about individual chapter delegations as she passed them...
...That's very typical," Narayan says. "The podium is probably her worst enemy. It's the crowd that she wants to belong...