Podium

Excited about winning the award, Marcia walked up to the podium and delivered an animated acceptance speech. 

He was rather slight in build, said Mack. But he walked in a very relaxed and confident marmer as he approached the podium. Even the way he moved his hands was impressive. For some uncarmy reason, there was something spellbinding in the way he spoke. ... 

Fm willing, he said. But it had better be this year, he added, knowing my dilatory tendencies. It was a sadly prophetic remark. When he spoke on the banquet hall podium that night, he said euphorically I feel like a rock star. Sid died of heart disease the following year and a special memorial service honored him at UCLA. 

Thomas Midgley was also a showman, and when the new product was announced to the world he made a demonstration of his perfect refrigerant at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. He sat on a podium, with a flask of CFC and a lit candle in front of him. He swallowed a mouthful of CFC to show that it was nontoxic and then he blew out the candle to show that it was nonflammable, to thunderous applause. This product created prosperity for many chemists and chemical engineers, who found employment and satisfying careers, handsome profits for investors, and satisfaction for householders, who could enjoy their convenient and safe home refrigerators. 

Watkinson, A. etal. PPAR alpha activators petroselinic acid as a novel skin benefit agent for antiperspirants, in Proceedings Oral Papers, 22nd IFSCC Congress, Podium, 2002, p. 11. 

In his public addresses, he was a most impressive presence on the lecture podium. He would build up his story to a crescendo of hand-waving animation, employing two projectors, two screens, and an impossible number of slides, but would still manage to finish within his allotted time slot and leave the audience gasping at his virtuosity. Most comfortable, naturally, in his native French, he was nevertheless little deterred when making his presentations in English. 

Yesterday at 10 00 a.m., Mark Spencer, the popular Director of the Smithfield Museum of Art, held a press conference. The room was buzzing with reporters as Mr. Spencer took the podium. Standing to his right was a striking woman with a crimson suit. Mr. Spencer first discussed the soon-to-be-launched artist-in-residence program as well as the upcoming annual fundraising dinner, which has been the hottest ticket in town ever since Mr. Spencer came to the Smithfield. 

With the discovery of the 21-cm line of hydrogen, the young field of radio astronomy entered a new era. Suddenly, it was as if a maestro had arrived on the podium, the cacophony ceased, and a sweet tone, pure in character, came from the orchestra playing as one. In Doc Ewen s horn-shaped antenna the static hiss of random radio waves firom outer space was replaced by a pure tone from hydrogen atoms. The pure tone had a frequency around 1,420 Mc/s with a wavelength of 21 cm. 

Industry publications and seminars can also provide useful information, but users should be wary of placing too much weight on podium policy statements by FDA officials or reading inspection citations issued to other companies. These sources may be misleading when the reader may not know all the facts surrounding any statements. 

Nicolae Ceaujescu s nearly built Palace of the Republic in Bucharest contained many design features along these lines. The legislative assembly hall had tiered balconies encircling Ceaujescu s "hydraulically lifted podium, and the palace s six hundred clocks were all centrally set from a console in Ceaujescu s suite (New York Times, December 5, 1991, p. 2). Lenin, in contrast, was always opposed... 

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