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...also repeatedly emphasized the feasibility of their platform throughout the course of campaigning. In the run-up to the election, Sundquist met with key administrators, including Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam, to make sure that the agenda he would pursue as president would be actionable.The central plank of the Sundquist-Sarafa platform was a push to reform the College’s Administrative Board, the disciplinary body that has been criticized for its opacity and failure to include any students as decision-makers.During the campaign, Sundquist suggested that his opponents’ promises—such as Willey?...
...central plank of the Sundquist-Sarafa platform was a push to reform the College's Administrative Board, the disciplinary body that has been criticized for its opacity and failure to include any students as decision-makers...
...economists in the 1970s even considered that real-world tax rates could be on the wrong side of the Laffer Curve. Laffer thought they might be, and Wanniski argued on the Journal's editorial page and elsewhere that they almost certainly were. The claim became a key plank of Ronald Reagan's successful 1980 campaign for President...
...temping to applaud McCain's restraint. Picking on Clinton - often in personal, even crude ways - has practically become an official Republican party plank. Rudy Giuliani regularly mocks Clinton's voice, and when Mitt Romney's campaign playbook was leaked to the crowd, it contained a proposal to link Clinton to the thing Americans used to hate more than anything: France...
...loudest cracks yet to ring out from Sarkozy's bipartisan plank of "ouverture" came Tuesday morning, when Secretary of State for Urban Affairs Fadela Amara lashed out at controversial immigration legislation awaiting final passage in parliament. If everything goes exactly to schedule, the law is expected to be passed on October 23. Amara used the undiplomatic term "degueulasse" - combining elements of "sickening" and "disgusting" - to describe an article of the law introducing DNA testing of certain new foreign residents to France and the storage of that data. Amara similarly denounced the law for allowing race to be noted in census...