Word: planked
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...case stirred public outrage and quickly became a rallying point during Ukraine's orange revolution. Viktor Yushchenko, the former opposition leader who was elected President in December after street protests forced a rerun of the vote, denounced the Kryvorizhstal sale as "theft" and made the issue a central plank of his campaign. Now that Yushchenko has taken power, Kryvorizhstal has emerged as an early test of his resolve. Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko say they will re-examine the privatization of the company and dozens of other formerly state-owned firms, many of which were sold off to Kuchma...
Even though we hear more about discothèques than dissertations, the moribund Harvard College Curricular Review champions the value of “international experiences.” In a generally boring and predictable pedagogical shakeup, internationalization has become the one “visionary” plank in the Review’s shaky platform. Indeed, if some form of the current Review proposals pass, the College will continue at least to encourage its students to take a semester off and live in a foreign country...
...example, Nicolais, one of the three candidates for the council presidency, told this writer that a key plank in his platform was making the council “more of a student government and less of a student group,” by modifying the role played by the council to involve more governance, facilitation, and engagement with students. Nicolais said that a fundamental part of his vision for the council was “to bring the council to the campus. We spend so much time in University Hall and not in the Yard...
Decked out dashingly in jodhpurs and flight goggles, Lindbergh runs on a single plank: he will keep the U.S. out of World War II. And he's as good as his word. Once elected, he makes peace with Hitler at a conference in Iceland, fetes German diplomats at the White House and establishes the chillingly plausible Office of American Absorption, a government agency aimed at "encouraging America's religious and national minorities to become further incorporated into the larger society"--in other words, forcibly breaking up Jewish communities and dispersing their members to rural backwaters per the novel's Homestead...
...wealthy. No, it’s far better to talk generally about cleaning up a headache-inducing system—about ending corporate loopholes—than to endorse any specific plan. This has Karl Rove’s fingerprints all over it. As long as Bush paints this plank in broad-brush strokes, he’s got a sure winner on his hands...