Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person and off the podium, Hillary Clinton is neither a killer lawyer nor the adoring spouse of the bus tours. Riding in the back seat of a car during a New York campaign swing, she wolfs down popcorn while worrying about whether < Chelsea got her booster shots. She jokes about only making the teams for sports like volleyball and softball -- and laments that she didn't have the foresight to concentrate on profession-enhancing pastimes like tennis and golf. While Bill can go for long stretches of time on the road, she says she has to head back frequently...
Even as Republican speechmakers were taking aim at Clinton from the podium last week, aides were crisscrossing the sprawl of Houston to underscore their points over breakfast, lunch, coffee and cocktails with reporters. Meanwhile, Democratic fax machines were churning out rebuttals -- including a two-page reply to Bush's acceptance speech before he had even finished delivering it. As the volley of stats and cost estimates flying between both camps increases, the campaign is likely to be fought in four major policy arenas as well as on the "family values" front. The key lines of attack...
...G.O.P. got a boost in Houston from prominent televangelists like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Even before he took the podium for a prime-time speech that accused Clinton of hatching "a radical plan to destroy the traditional family," Robertson revved up ultraconservatives outside the convention hall. At a Houston rally, young zealots distributed handbills denouncing "queers" and "feminazis" as Robertson berated the Democrats for failing to mention God in their platform...
...Among the women on the podium at Madison Square Garden were several Republicans...
That's the image GOP officials have tried to present this week, unleashing a number of minority speakers on the podium. Many have told stories of self-improvement, of triumph over adversity, of pulling themselves up. The buzzword is enterprise; the reference is to the American Dream...