Word: platform
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Completing her third term as a City Councillor, Triantafillou has litigated several influential gay-rights and domestic abuse cases. She is involved in several gay rights organizations, law associations and support groups for battered women. Her platform includes increasing affordable housing, growth management and traffic control, and promoting race and class equity...
Aside from her views on gun control, though, Dole's platform was nearly indistinguishable from Bush's, and just as ill-defined. Dole avoided making specific proposals, instead taking such gutsy stances as support for school discipline...
...disarmament platform, Hughes ran in Massachusetts as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in the 1962 race against Democrat Edward M. Kennedy...
...Moscow to halt its offensive and negotiate, but Putin stuck to his guns. Hardly surprising, since the Chechnya campaign is the neophyte prime minister?s prime opportunity to make a name for himself ahead of next year?s presidential election. "The war against Chechen terrorism is Putin?s election platform," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "And for the moment, it?s doing just what Kremlin image-makers had hoped ? boosting Putin?s macho image and his popularity in the polls...
...think that some people were hurt and offended about how he was given the platform at Harvard, because having spoken at Harvard tends to legitimize a speaker," said Sameera Fazili '00, president of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) and a Harvard Class Marshal...