Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time it was in the Kremlin that the bums themselves seemed to take heed and the custodians of absolute power began the process of giving it up. And this time Mikhail Sergeyevich, the Commissar Liberator, was not somewhere over the horizon, letting it all happen. He was on the podium, making it happen...
Davis, who had not seen the chapel until the elevator was installed, led the fight to make the building accessible for physically disabled people. Leaning on a podium to steady himself, he said that the renovations were "one of the few times that a Harvard graduate school has made a systematic effort to take advantage of the capabilities of those with disabilities...
...more than just lack of initiative, though, that holds most undergraduates at podium's distance from academia. Finding a professor's office in the bowels of Widener is the easy part; it can be a whole lot trickier making it to the other side of the wooden door. The standard procedure among tenured professors is to allot but one office hour per week to undergraduates; sometimes, this thin slice of time is shared by graduate students as well. Even worse, professors often don't mention this office hour and their office location in class--much less advertise them...
...mayor did not take questions and turned the podium over to his wife following his brief statement. Attention has been focused on Effi Barry in part because the mayor was lured to his arrest by another woman...