Word: rostrum
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...minutes and nine "no comments" later, Madison was literally closeted with Sherman in a custodial storage area behind the rostrum. At 66, the rugged, rough-hewn Sherman, who had never worn a wig in his life, was not a man to mince words. "James," he said, his foot resting on a slops bucket, "we can't write a Constitution in this bedlam. Hell, every time I belch, I discover I'm on live TV. Enough of this posturing and strutting, I'm going home to New Haven...
Rumors of what Citicorp Chairman John Reed was about to say had already roiled stock and bond markets last week as the trim executive stepped up onto a rostrum in Manhattan. Soon the confirmation flashed around the world: the largest U.S. bank (1986 assets: $196.1 billion) had made an almost heretical break with the U.S. financial community's long-standing practices in handling its crushing burden of $62 billion in Third World debt. Reed declared that Citicorp intends to set aside, effective immediately, no less than $3 billion in additional reserves to cover loan losses on its $133 billion portfolio...
...stepped from the rostrum, Gaddafi received only mild applause. In contrast, the audience clapped loudly when Mugabe replied that "not all our members" agree with Gaddafi. The Zimbabwe leader then added that the conference had at least given Gaddafi a forum to air his views...
...President, dwarfed by a giant sepia photograph of OSS Founder William ("Wild Bill") Donovan behind the rostrum, paid generous tribute to these erstwhile practitioners of the dark arts of spying, espionage, sabotage and behind-the-lines derring-do. The OSS's achievements, said Reagan, were of the sort for which "praise and thanks can only come from history and not your contemporaries." But he tried to make up for the slight, saying, "We honor you, we salute you, we thank you for a job well done...
Gorbachev was dismissive of the American offer but did not reject it outright. Said he: "Since the reply was received literally on the eve of this congress, the United States apparently expects our attitude to the U.S. stand to be known to the world from this rostrum . . . It is hard to detect any serious proposals on the part of the U.S. Administration to get down to resolving the cardinal problem of eliminating the nuclear threat." Gorbachev went on to hint that fixing a date for his next summit meeting with Reagan would depend on progress at the U.S.-Soviet nuclear...