Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Young Committee, which had its first meeting this spring, was established three years ago before the most recent challenges to the election procedures by Alumni Against Apartheid. That activist group has sponsored a slate of candidates nominated by petition and running on a pro-divestment platform...
...much of the credit for this economic turnaround. "Mike is saying `don't just ask me where I stand, ask me what I've done,"' explains Champion, adding that developments in business, science, physical infrastructure and education are the lynchpins of both Dukakis's state program and his national platform...
...Since Fiji gained independence from Britain in 1970, racial tensions had been held in check by the government of Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. But in April -- with the support of Indians and both poorer and educated young Fijians attracted by his left-leaning coalition's pro-labor platform -- Bavadra, an ethnic Fijian, and his Indian-dominated party came to power...
...perfect husband. It's whether or not the man is telling the ; truth. Voters need to be able to trust candidates and Presidents, not take comfort in their successful marriages. In the past, candidates didn't feel so obliged to drag wives and husbands and kids onto the platform. Now it's become obligatory. And sometimes it leads to great anguish...
...councilman's platform acknowledges and is very sympathetic to the concerns...