Word: pulpiteering
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...That fact that when people think of a university the first they think of Harvard is something we can be very proud of,” he said. “We have a tremendous bully pulpit where what’s done at Harvard is watched...
...with reformist Mohammed Khatami, who has held the presidency since then. While that office has always been much less powerful than that of the venerable Supreme Leader (Khamenei, while theoretically above politics, runs Iranian foreign and nuclear policy from behind closed doors), the presidency has been a strategic bully pulpit for those with ideas different from the theocracy. Now with Rafsanjani humiliated at the polls and reformists crying in the wilderness, Khamenei has an acolyte as President. Ahmadinejad, says a political scientist based in Tehran, will effectively function as Khamenei's "executive secretary." The opposition in Iran grumbles that Khamenei...
...died, he was devouring newspapers and demanding thrice-daily reports on the crises hitting Arroyo, according to his brother and his private secretary (though this time Sin had not made his views public). Cardinal Sin's legacy is a church that sees no need to remain in the bully pulpit...
...Burr's pulpit these days is an office at Newark Airport's North Terminal. On one side of the room, his windows overlook an arena-size lobby where thousands of passengers wait, eat, sleep and often grumble. Windows on the opposite wall face the runways, where People's jets streak skyward toward Los Angeles, London and 47 other destinations. Burr's office is bus-station Spartan, like his airline. In the place where a conventional executive's couch would sit, he has a row of three first-class seats from...
...first four years on the job, Summers has made generous use of the bully pulpit to set Harvard’s agenda...