Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from home, on the other side of the world, at the U.N.'s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995. That was a delicate time in U.S.-Chinese relations, so tense that some in Washington had argued she should not even attend. When Hillary took the podium, she unleashed the most stinging human-rights rebuke ever by a prominent American speaking for this government on Chinese soil. "It is time to break our silence," she declared. "It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable...
...guess I'll wait until I fall off the lecturing podium or they carry me out," he jokes. "I don't think about [retirement]," he adds...
...this unusual note, Oliver Stone entered the room and shuffled up to the stage. Looking haggard and exhausted, Stone stood, slightly slumped, over the podium and apologized to the audience for his lack of energy. The firebrand of many a TV interview lamented the day's six previous publicity-engagements and mumbled, "Live television is torture...it's demeaning." The publicity-hungry Oliver Stone of Natural Born Killers, of endless controversy and extremist rhetoric, was clearly nowhere to be found...
...billion? Let's go for the big one." After bouncing the idea off his wife, Jane Fonda, over dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria ("She burst into tears" of joy, he says), Turner stunned an audience that included U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan by announcing from the podium that over 10 years he will give $1 billion to fund U.N. programs...
...perfectly happy," says the political powerhouse, with a satisfied tone that barely betrays the chaos of appointments she has so carefully arranged like David Copperfield's indestructible house of cards. From the Council podium to administrative lunches and back to dinner in Adams house, Lamelle and her septanote have got it covered...