Word: platformization
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Diana lived them. Her prince really came. She grew famous beyond measure, bore two healthy sons and acquired a regal platform for her generous heart. For all the opprobrium heaped last week by Diana's admirers on the chilly Windsors, she would have been invisible without them. The lonely youngest daughter of divorced parents, she translated her own pain not into bitterness and withdrawal but into a genuine desire to comfort the suffering of others--people afflicted with AIDS and leprosy and breast cancer, the mutilated victims of land mines. She could have done far worse with her fortune...
...first, and most optimistic, possibility is that under tremendous international pressure, Hamas will soften its platform and renounce terrorism in order to maintain the vital flow of almost a billion dollars in annual foreign aid. It may seem a stretch to assume that an organization committed to the annihilation of Israel and with a long history of brutally murdering innocent civilians is capable of such fundamental change. However, to draw an incomplete parallel, at the start of Ariel Sharon’s term as Prime Minister of Israel, no one would have ever predicted that he would advocate an Israeli...
...L?pez is frank about his intention to review the 12-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) if he's elected, particularly when it comes to what he calls the "invasion" of cheap food staples from U.S. and Canadian farmers who enjoy generous government subsidies. But his platform also seems to speak to Americans exasperated by rampant illegal immigration, since it focuses on breathing new life - and smarter investment - into Mexico's ever-downtrodden small- and medium-size businesses. Those companies employ two-thirds of the nation's workforce and could be the key to keeping workers at home...
...graduate of Harvard Medical School and neurology resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, died in a construction accident that killed three people in downtown Boston on Monday. He was 28. A native of Atherton, Calif., Ty was driving down Boylston Street when a 10-ton lift platform suddenly collapsed and crashed onto his Honda Civic. “[Ty’s] life was cut tragically short before he had the chance to deliver on all his promise; he was destined to have a stellar career as a physician-scientist,” according...
...What I’m worried about in terms of film festivals is that MySpace will become a much more important platform for people who want to pay attention to what culture is,” referring to interactive social networking on the web. And though he emphasizes that a “six minute clip” hardly compares to a theater viewing, there is a need for festivals to respond...