Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Anderson peppered his campaign with a buckshot array of intelligent, unorthodox attacks on specific problems, he nevertheless failed to project the vision that would give wings to a political movement capable of upsetting the two-party system. He might well complain that his 317-page platform was barely read, much less reported. Still the longtime political conservative, who had moderated his views enough to be endorsed by New York's Liberal Party and the New Republic, gambled mainly on riding a wave of anti-Carter and anti-Reagan sentiment. That, clearly, was not enough...
...cross section of Americans hard and positive reasons to vote for him. What is more, in a campaign once again dominated by personality and TV imagery, Anderson was handicapped. To his credit, he has shunned much of his image-shapers' advice to win votes by artificially changing his platform behavior. Instead, Anderson has remained true to himself: erratically ebullient, enthused, inspiring, as well as dour, bored, cranky and preachy. In a post-debate memo to Anderson, Stewart Mott, a millionaire backer, wrote sympathetically as well as critically: "That fateful evening, you needed to come across as sensational, exciting, lively...
...pound home the same message: the U.S. is in a terrifying moral decline, and Christians have a duty to reverse it by registering and voting for candidates who agree with their moral principles. As enunciated by Falwell and other conservative evangelicals, those principles are remarkably similar to the Republican platform-which in fact Moral Majority had a hand in shaping...
...House of Commons, the left arrived in Blackpool determined to wrest control of the party from its leaders. In particular, the militants aimed at three longtime objectives: 1) the right to draft the party's policy manifesto, which is far more binding than a U.S. party platform; 2) closer control over M.P.s by their "constituency parties," or local committees, 80% of whose members are leftist militants; and 3) selection of the party leader by the rank and file instead of the M.P.s...
...grew out of the political forces backing reform of Cambridge's city charter in the late 1930s. It was predominantly a "good government" taxpayers group, though Kistiakowsky said, "We wouldn't be ashamed today of our first platform--it showed a lot of social conscience...