Word: planked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike most of his fellow councilors, Danehy is a strong supporter of the universities in Cambridge. He feels they work well with the city and are an integral part of it. Something else rare for an Independent, Danehy has a small pro-student plank: the universities, he said, should not be taxed by the city because the costs would only be passed on to the students...
Control Fertility. The American delegation had lobbied for an amendment proposing that governments grant women complete freedom to "control their fertility." Though abortion was never mentioned, Third World women voted down the amendment as too radical. They passed, however, a surprisingly liberal plank stating that "individuals and couples" should have the means and the right to determine the spacing and number of their children...
...Town Wilder brings the usually unseen Stage Manager on stage. We see him suggest the Locale--Grover's Corners. New Hampshire--by bringing in some plain wooden chairs and a couple of tables, to which are added, as needed, a plank and, for a second-story window scene, a pair of step ladders. The Stage Manager also narrates background for us, guides the players, bridges time gaps, comments on what happens, doubles as a druggist, minister and an unnamed the woman (in early drafts of the play he took on several of the children's roles to boot), and dismisses...
...said, in October 1974, "I am not, Emphasizing not, asking you for any increase in gas taxes"? What was a central plank in the economic program he announced last week...
...charter and to discuss major national policy issues. And ostensibly that is exactly what was done. The delegates passed a charter that institutionalized recent party reforms and gave some direction and uniformity to what in the past has been a loosely assembled mass of rules and positions. An economic plank drawn up by the 52-member Rules Committee was accepted. And Democrats split up into day-long seminars to discuss issues ranging from "Government and Human Needs" to "America and Its Role in the International System...