Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Massoud and Rabbani insist that they hope to build a common platform with other mujahedin parties and have invited their help in building a more broadly based national "Islamic army." Says Rabbani: "We believe that all other parties should join in, and we are working hard toward this end." If unity proves as difficult to achieve in victory as it has been up to now, Jamiat's leaders may look on their army as more than a dagger aimed at Najibullah's heart: the force may prove to be what one Jamiat official calls an "insurance policy" for a postwar...
...direct talks with the P.L.O. and an end to the military occupation. It now holds five seats and may win up to eight. Party leader Shulamit Aloni, a former Labor member, has already informed Peres that she will join a Labor government if he adopts a more aggressive peace platform, perhaps to the point of agreeing to negotiate with a reformed P.L.O...
...fate. So much corn has an unexpected rich barnyard kind of smell, a cloying excess of smell. Bush appears with his two oldest grandchildren, walks toward a monster mound of corn and, as photographers record the event, he acts like a man waiting for a train on a platform. Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue appear, dressed in tall spike heels, skintight pedal pushers and Bush T shirts. On the other side of the factory, for the thousandth time that day, the sisters introduce Bush by singing Coal Miner's Daughter, Amazing Grace, The Man from Galilee...
...litany of unusually specific proposals in the Republican platform is a plank explicitly opposing prison furloughs for murderers. And in a testament to the Bush campaign's utterly shameless exploitation of the issue, media advisor Roger Ailes joked that he only had to decide whether to portray Horton in television commercials "with or without a knife in his hand...
...undergraduate community elected a leader based on a clear platform, the council might swerve closer to actually representing the student body--which a nominal student government should be doing all along...