Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sitting Senators in the Dakotas. Well, they did so by attacking the incumbents for failing to do enough to help farmers in the region. So they'll come to D.C. and vote for more farn bailouts? Wonderful. They--and their counterparts across the country--did not advocate a "Democratic" platform. Why? Because no such positions-cum-philosophy exists...
Kahane said earlier this week that he was planning to come to Boston to speak at the Boston University and Harvard Hillels, even though neither organization had invited him. He said he was coming to challenge what he described as a standing policy denying him a platform for free speech...
Seidman must have been displeased with the candy Bok put in her goodie bag because the campus divestment activist responded with a trick of her own. She became, in Bok's words, "an insurgent candidate" in the 1986 Board of Overseers election, running on a pro-divestment platform...
Unfortunately, the drama's unusual set-up prevents this revelation from being very affecting; on a platform, the lovers talk and laugh while two "Commentators" intervene to relate, without emotion, the events of the day. The audience is primarily disoriented by their frequent interruptions...
...candidates, she added, "Every primary in which there was a clear choice between a real Democrat and an imitation, they chose the genuine article." If "real Democrat" is defined as liberal, the returns in several key contests bear her out. In Georgia, for example, Hamilton Jordan ran on a platform of moving the party to the center but lost to Wyche Fowler, the most liberal Congressmen in the state. In New York, John Dyson had ample money and mushy moderate ideas; he lost to Mark Green, a pugnacious reformer. The clearest choice was in Pennsylvania, where Congressman Bob Edgar...