Word: planking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...School's version of Truckers ran for seats on the council on a two-plank platform of holding a monster truck rally and serving beer at all law school events...
...coalition began earlier this semester to try to implement its plank of providing beer at the council's bimonthly meetings--which all students can attend...
Clinton's pledge was the first of many promises he and his health team would have to adjust to reality. Over the next 18 months, Clinton's reform plan grew from a necessary campaign plank into a centerpiece of his presidency, and the President's attitude was marked by a whatever-it-takes practicality. For one thing, his aides reworked the timing of the scheme. Clinton now concedes he will need another year to enact his plan and three more to put it fully into place. After insisting that raising taxes wasn't necessary, Clinton's aides made an increase...
...Haight-Ashbury. They attracted immediate attention for their coiffure, dedication to British Oi! music, black Doc Martens boots and a ferocious appetite for violence -- against blacks, gays and Jews. Sometimes the fury turned inward: in August 1987 a California | group nailed its ex-leader to a 6-ft. plank. (He survived.) "To be a skinhead," says one participant from those days, "none of the other skinheads are going to respect you unless you go out and mess somebody up, and if you don't, you get messed...
...energy tax to placate Senate Democrats who opposed it. Clinton's almost instant capitulation provoked an outcry among Democrats in the House, who had already taken the political risk of voting to approve Clinton's BTU-based energy tax. "I think we've been left hanging out on a plank, and I must say I don't like it," lamented Colorado's Patricia Schroeder. Though the White House still wants some kind of energy tax, it has ceded control over the budget process to the Senate Finance Committee, where an increased tax on gas and diesel fuel gained some support...