Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...train pulled into view of Gujranwala, a farming and industrial center in the northeast state of Punjab. Red-black-and-green banners embossed with the arrow of the Pakistan People's Party (P.P.P.) fluttered overhead. The chant "Benazir, Prime Minister!" crescendoed as Benazir Bhutto, 35, stepped onto the platform. Holding high the party's manifesto, the candidate declared, "You have a chance to decide the future. Vote for the arrow aimed at the heart of injustice...
With Jackson, instead of trying to hide him for a while (as if that would affect the people determined to vote against the Democrats because of race), Dukakis should have shared the platform with him, saying the Democratic Party has nothing to hide -- unlike the Republicans, who were smuggling Dan Quayle into grade schools where girls could squeal and boys could ask questions as dumb as the answers. By the time Dukakis began to respond, it was by desperately imitating Bush's first flag rallies and by producing mean copies of the Horton ad, substituting victims of the federal furloughs...
...Nixon are as much ideological as personal. Vice President Bush stressed throughout his campaign that America was separated by a "Great Divide." His cries for a mainstream mandate are in many ways similar to Nixon's own faith in a silent majority. Nixon won on a "law-and-order" platform, and George Bush did the same. The Willie Horton case, brought to you courtesy of Roger Ailes, did matter. Fully three times as many Americans said they voted based on fears of crime than anxiety over relations between the superpowers...
Peres ran on a platform of gambling land for peace: "If you give me the chance, I can start negotiations, and the whole picture in the Middle East can change." He pinned his star to his long-standing plan for peace talks with Jordan and a Palestinian delegation under international auspices. That proposal suffered a critical blow last July when King Hussein severed all of Jordan's ties to the West Bank...
...Democrats, they have been accused not of saying nasty things, but of saying nothing. Their platform was intentionally vague, and Bush partisans claim that their supposedly negative attacks were simply attempts to make the differences between the candidates clear...