Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Candidates would have to stand on a platform that could serve as a working agenda for the council throughout the year. A campus-wide vote would also increase interest in the council and make students feel that they have more of a stake in the running of their own student government...
...stake is a woman's right to control her own body, a woman's right to privacy"--this powerful argument forms the moral and legal plank of the pro-choice platform. Indeed, given the way that pro-choicers have been able to frame the debate, to oppose abortion, for many people, means that one is thus anti-liberty and privacy and for the imposition of others' views on women...
...significant constituency of his own, and he made the decision without heeding the counsel of politically savvy advisers. Sununu too was a highly personal choice: he had little Washington experience, but Bush had come to rely on him heavily during the 1988 primaries and in formulating the Republican platform...
...much power can a guy buy for about $25,000? Tim Lublin of Hollywood, Fla., who spent that much on the gear in his Chevy pickup, needs five twelve- volt batteries, hidden behind the front seat, to supply juice for his 3,000-watt system. The platform holding his five amplifiers folds on piano hinges to reveal a subfloor that carries four fans to cool the amps...
...dive into the short-movie form is highly difficult, especially when confronted from the platform of a lofty reputation. It requires the same concentration of effort and narrative skills needed for a full-length feature but, without the distractions of spectacle or subplot, makes flaws more obvious. In these circumstances, Scorsese and Allen have a natural advantage. Their core following is not big enough to support the grand movie gesture, and they have learned the art of compression that seems to bore, if not actually depress, their ever thrashing colleague...