Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, Benjamin Dreyfus '01 is running on a jingoistic platform, hoping to convince Mass. Hall to declare war on an unspecified small nation...
...spree at their school [NATION, Nov. 8], I was angry but not surprised. After the massacre of students at Columbine High School, I often cringed at the way the media (including your publication) constantly referred to the political and social beliefs of the two murderers, giving them a national platform. A group of Ohio teens have a social message that they want the world to know about, and so they plan an attack on their school. Where would they get this idea? From video games? Movies? I believe they were inspired by the media's coverage of the Columbine incident...
...position on a tax bill that they would not be permitted on the stand at the Yankees ticker-tape parade. (The first two actions were reversed by courts on First Amendment grounds; the barred legislators did not go to court to test the proposition that standing on the platform like a big shot is a constitutionally protected form of expression.) At this point, New Yorkers would not be surprised to hear that someone who took a position contrary to the mayor's in a late-night discussion of how a Jack Dempsey-Rocky Marciano fight would turn out had awakened...
...take the historic step of leaving the President home alone to start campaigning for New York's Senate seat from her new Westchester home (she says they'll rejoin each other on the weekends). The First Lady said she'd make a formal declaration, including the announcement of her platform, early in the new year...
...software writers all want to write software for the most popular platform," Zittrain said. "People want the platform with the most software...