Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...president who will be honest about the economy. A president needs to confront the $150 billion deficit, not spend yet another administration ignoring and pushing it into our future. We need plans to fuel trade and raise the dollar. Neither candidate has been honest enough to campaign on a platform of increasing taxes, yet every president--including Reagan--has raised taxes. Bush's vow of "no new taxes" is demagogic. Dukakis has not provided an answer to this dilemma, but he will not do away with the needed social agenda to gain fiscal solvency...
Bush favors continued federal support for the Nicaraguan rebels. He is critical of any multilateral approach, calling it a "platform for peace" without any means of achieving...
Albano argues that Thompson has no political accomplishments or clear platform issues, calling him "nebulous on rent control" and insincere on gay rights. "The only thing he's done is come out and attack us," he adds...
...platform in the '64 race was "Save the Sycamores," referring to a line of trees along Memorial Drive...
...shape its materials seriously vitiates its power to grip and instruct our consciences. Worse, there are deeply disquieting moments when Ophuls abandons the documentarian's traditionally modest on-screen role as a reporter in search of a story and presents himself instead as an egotist in search of a platform...