Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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What, after all, is the South Africa Solidarity Committee position on abortion? AIDS testing? The establishment of a women's center? Contrary to the conspiracy theories that Plotz's article could spawn, no grand meeting was held to determine the platform of the Campus Left...
...moving too cautiously to sell off government-owned businesses and property. Many also resented his reluctance to bring to trial Poland's old Communist bosses, some of whom secured control of government property before it could be privatized. It did not help that he ran on the sobering platform that there was more pain to come...
...scowling Prime Minister Michel Rocard watched, one communist National Assembly Deputy after another dropped a small mahogany ball in a green urn on the Speaker's platform. Once allies of Rocard, the communists now sided with the opposition, and were voting in favor of censuring the government. But Rocard survived...
Dixon said that her platform signaled a dramatic shift of political priorities, and that one of her top priorities will be to streamline city government...
Meanwhile, Jesse Jackson won his first elective office by becoming the district's "shadow" Senator, providing him with a high-profile platform from which to launch another presidential run. The unsalaried job, which carries no voting privileges, will be used to lobby for statehood. Civil rights activist and law professor Eleanor Holmes Norton won the Delegate seat to the House, also a nonvoting post...