Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harmon, who won an Undergraduate Council seat on a platform opposing randomization, also said he hopes to "add legitimacy to the cause" by convincing the council to back his fight...
Even my father, a jaded New York City commuter, has become alarmed. "It's getting worse," he confided last month, describing a morose figure collecting popcorn kernels from the filthy Grand Central Station platform. Commuters walked over and around him obliviously. The tracks nearby led straight into the wealthy suburbs of Westchester County. All Harvard students must have similar stories to tell...
...would have been unrealistic to expect the plenum to resolve chronic problems of empire that have bedeviled Czars and party leaders alike. Nevertheless, the outcome was noticeably flat and predictable. The party's new platform offered vague promises of economic and cultural autonomy to the 15 national republics but warned that secession or the revision of borders was unacceptable. Violence would be met with the "full force of Soviet laws," the platform warned. Yet all this has been said before, and seems unlikely to end the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh or cool the breakaway passions in the Baltic states...
Conservative John Flanagan from West Roxbury, son of District Attorney Newman Flanagan, with 10.9 percent; Joseph Casper from South Boston, who campaigned on a law-and-order platform, with 8.2 percent; and Althea Garrison from Dorchester with 4 percent...
...After all, the Democratic party completely rejected Jackson's Middle East platform. However, Supreme Court justices have to be acceptable to Falwell and Robertson...