Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This city has often gone with developers at the expense of neighborhoods," says Myers. "I am running very much on a preservation, a proneighborhood platform...
...Athletics, we repeatedly hear of instances in which Harvard's academic standards are not compromised for any applicant's athletic skills. The Admissions Committee strives for diversity in excellence in the candidates it selects, regardless of whether it is manifested on the cello, the stage or the diving platform. And the implication that athletics is somehow less intellectual an activity than music or art is somewhat misleading. The required academic mastery of Coach Restic's "multiflex offense" to perform well on the football field or the required knowledge of the physics of the hammer throw is no less intellectual than...
Lord says Mitchell "is a sound scholar with great erudition, as well as a very lively and dignified presence on the platform...
...National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). "I'm scared about what the court might do, and I'm concerned about George Bush." Though Bush has taken various positions on the issue over the course of his long political life, he campaigned for the presidency on a staunchly antiabortion platform. Last week he affirmed his commitment to that platform by deciding to keep as Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, an ardent convert to the antiabortion cause...
...join the 49 other Governors in signing a proclamation condemning a 1975 U.N. resolution that equated Zionism with racism. Sununu, whose father is Lebanese, mollified critics with the explanation that he later recognized his mistake and supported the strongly pro-Israel plank in the 1988 Republican platform. "One learns from what goes on," he acknowledged. The flak aimed at Sununu spurred Bush to accelerate by 24 hours his tapping of the chief of staff, after which the criticism subsided...