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...Mahre topped the rankings in the early 1980s. Miller has posted wins in all four disciplines on the circuit: the high-speed events, which include the downhill and the super-G, as well as the more precision-oriented giant slalom and slalom events. The U.S. team has had 12 podium finishes this World Cup season. Miller owns 10 of them. (Rahlves got the other two.) Says U.S. head coach Phil McNichol: "He walks out the door, and he is good. He doesn't necessarily work harder; he's just naturally better than everybody else out there. He's inspiring...
...straightest possible line down the hill. Instead of using sweeping arced turns through the gates, he cuts shorter, sharper-radius turns. "Challenging the line that way increases the force on your body, and it reacts differently," says McNichol. Although he has been no stranger to the podium over the past four years, Miller burst out of the gates this season. He won four of the first six races, and six of the first 10. While other skiers might take until December to start skiing their best, Miller says, "Four or five days, and I'm there...
...meeting, Mahan and outgoing council Vice President Michael R. Blickstead ’05, dressed in tuxedos, came to the podium...
After the Financial Committee (FiCom) passed a grants package, each Committee chair came up to the podium to say their thank yous, and, in some cases, goodbyes...
During the 2000 campaign, Bush never left home without a podium. To support the promise to "restore honor and dignity to the White House" and combat the notion that he was a lightweight, his team wanted to make him look presidential whenever possible. But four years later, with the re-election campaign under way, his imagemakers had the opposite worry. There was too much pomp, too many suits. They needed to get him out from behind the lectern and let him be a regular guy. So Bush went from set speeches to town-hall meetings, from suits to shirtsleeves...