Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quoting a critic's reaction to gender-blind casting in an 1895 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rigg leaned over the podium and bellowed, "The only reason the director made that choice is because it is wrong. There is no other reason...
...Hornstein tells it, he and Chao approached the podium in jackets and ties, and gave serious speeches detailing how they wanted to energize the council from the secretary's seat...
...future hold for Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole? Some analysts think she could go all the way in '96. At a $1000 a plate Republican fundraiser last Thursday in Boston, William F. Weld '66 introduced Dole as a promising candidate for the White House. When Dole ascended the podium, she waved away the flattery--leaving the question wide open...
After several liberals rose to condemn the plan as dictatorial, Gorbachev took to the podium. Banging the lectern with his palm, his face scarlet with determination, he expressed his exasperation with those who dawdled while the economy went up in flames. "We're in a very dangerous situation," he said. "Let's not kid ourselves . . . I ask you for the authority to act." He finished to whoops of applause punctuated with shouts of "Let's do it!" There was no quorum in the hall, so no vote could be taken. But given the enthusiastic response to Gorbachev's oration...
...lines for basic staples, including bread, grow ever longer, confidence in his government has dipped so precipitously that even President Mikhail Gorbachev decided last month to join forces with longtime rival Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Russian Republic, in drafting an alternative plan. Thus when Ryzhkov stepped to the podium of the Supreme Soviet last week to present his latest plan to bail out the economy, parliamentary deputies, just back from the summer recess and visits with cranky voters, were not about to let him off lightly...