Word: planks
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...grown apart from the people it is supposed to represent. And some claim the CCA's leadership, particularly Dowds, attempts a stranglehold on its members. For example, the organization's platform dictates that its members must act in consensus on the issue of the city manager--a plank which Cyr and Reeves disregarded...
...They think alike," said an aide to the Secretary. "They both like substance and structure." Option C of his study, which called for $60 billion in cuts from Bush's program over four years, became the cornerstone of Clinton's defense program. During the campaign, Aspin wrote the defense plank in the Democratic platform and became Clinton's sole briefer on security issues for the campaign debates. "It was pretty predictable that Aspin would become Secretary," concludes one of his aides...
...favored former Missouri Governor John Ashcroft or party tactician Spencer Abraham. Rather than flock under ideological banners, however, most of the R.N.C. members avoided ideology. The loudest applause of the day came when Rich Bond, the G.O.P.'s retiring chairman, urged that the 1996 platform drop its strict antiabortion plank...
Boyle says abortion is the most explosive issue facing her club. Many members, including outgoing president Emil G. Michael '94, do not subscribe to the GOP's anti-abortion plank...
...plank violates Harvard's policy of nondiscrimination. And ROTC opponents say this is reason enough to keep the program off campus...