Word: platform
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bunting-Smith was a visionary who saw Harvard as a platform to implement her ideas, said her son Charles I. Bunting...
Freshman Greg Walker, this year's only member of the men's diving team, also qualified for NCAAs and notched a final personal score of 331.70 from the platform...
Both Skocpol and Brazelton point to Clinton's 1996 best-selling book It Takes a Village as evidence of the mainstream appeal of the First Lady's ideas. And both say Clinton's platform was misportrayed by her conservative opposition...
...candidate, Weld pioneered the moderate Republican platform--stumping for fiscal restraint and responsibility, tough crime legislation and defending a woman's right to an abortion--in two successful gubernatorial campaigns...
Within Harvard this year, there was disheartening evidence that dreams are dying hard. Students elected Beth A. Stewart '00 president of the student body on a myopic platform of "pragmatic" student issues such as wiring the dorms for cable television and winning frozen yogurt for first-years. In that election, students rejected the notion that their representatives ought to engage bigger and simply more important issues: Faculty diversity, the tenure process, the close-mouthed Administrative Board, the morality of University investments. Long-term progress on these big issues takes a willingness to think...