Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats, with a tightly bunched group of frontrunners, focused on attacking U.S. policy in Central America, with Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis suggesting he would be willing to tolerate a Soviet client state in the region as long as it was not "a platform for offensive military operations or the subversion of neighboring governments...
...past few years, some members of the Board have sought to increase the body's role in major policy decisions such as divestment. The recent election of three overseers who ran on a pro-divestment platform has raised concerns that the Board could become politicized. The Board has traditionally rubber stamped most Corporation decisions, playing its most significant role through visitingcommittees, which report on various aspects ofHarvard...
School Committee Member Joseph Casper, who flaunted a conservative record, was not reelected to the council this term, and Rosaria Salerno, who ran on a very progressive platform, was elected for the first time...
...their constituencies now anyway. Why attack if you can't get votes out of it?" Both Jackson and Robertson are likely to arrive at their respective conventions with committed blocs of delegates, ready to bargain over the identity of the nominee or the content of the party platform. Come November, the Democrats will need high black turnout and Republicans will want to win over Robertson's Fundamentalist followers, many of whom have tenuous ties to the G.O.P.. As a Bush adviser says about Robertson, "We're going to need his folks next fall. Why alienate them...
...occurred on Sept. 19, 1978, at the tiny railroad station in Mineralnye Vody, where Brezhnev's train stopped for a brief time. In one of the more remarkable moments in Soviet history, four men who were all to serve as General Secretary found themselves on the same narrow station platform: Brezhnev; Andropov, who had come over from the nearby spa and in 1982 would succeed Brezhnev; Konstantin Chernenko, then Brezhnev's chief aide and in 1984 Andropov's successor; and Gorbachev, who would take over from Chernenko as General Secretary the following year. Less than a month after that gathering...