1.   As speaker after speaker mounted the podium, each was heckled, booed and, ultimately, outshouted by the protesters.

2.   Before holing up in his hotel to rehearse his speech in the afternoon, Lieberman went to Staples Center and mounted the podium.

3.   After carefully interrogating all known witnesses, Rodney Peete mounted the podium late yesterday with a report on his afternoon at Texas Stadium.

4.   Gore spokesman Douglas Hattaway fired a salvo at Bush even before the GOP candidate had mounted the podium to deliver his address.

5.   The blond, burly, smiling tuba player mounted the podium, bowed to his colleagues and to the audience, then lifted his arms and gazed heavenward.

6.   The two senators, still shell shocked by developments, mount the podium.

7.   Then Kemp, too, mounted the podium, and the candidates and their wives acknowledged the cheers of the hall.

8.   When Dole finally mounted the podium, Robertson clasped his hands in a victory salute.

9.   After mounting the podium, he stared out at the pennant-waving throng.

10.   After mounting the podium, he stared out at the pennant-waving throng which stretched as far as he could see.