Word: planks
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...hand down a decision before Election Day. They wanted pro-life candidates -- starting with the President -- to be called to account by voters. Since becoming Ronald Reagan's vice-presidential running mate in 1980, Bush has gingerly staked out a position consistent with his party's anti-choice plank. This year, with all five major Democratic hopefuls rushing to affirm their pro-choice credentials, Bush might try to move toward the center as November approaches. But in some recent state elections, candidates who tiptoed away from pro-life positions got little thanks from voters. With the New Hampshire primary only...
...group of G.O.P. activists encouraged by Atwater's "Big Tent" philosophy -- the notion that the party can accommodate different ideological views -- are out to modify the party platform's antiabortion plank. As currently written, the platform asserts that "the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed," a position that refuses to embrace exceptions for rape, incest or danger to the mother's life. "We are not going to roll over again," says Ann Stone, who heads Republicans for Choice. "We will continue to be somewhat civil, but we are no longer going to be silent...
...funding critique is a powerful and valid one. Some of Weld's proposed initiatives have already been undercut by his own massive spending cuts on education. For example, a major plank in Weld's plan is the establishment of school governance councils consisting of parents and teachers. Apart from the less-than-revolutionary nature of a more powerful PTA, this initiative is problematic because it was already launched in 1988 under the name "school improvement councils." The budget for these councils has already been cut by the governor...
...room that first year was in Child Hall. Imagine my boundless enthusiasm upon learning this was an infamous "Walter Gropius building." It was the smallest single I've ever seen--with a wooden plank instead of a box spring frame and walls so thin my next door neighbor regularly could wake me with his snoring...
Then in April 1988, a load of Brazilian cedar boards arrived in Tarpon Springs, Fla., aboard the freighter Amazon Sky. DEA alerted Tampa Customs that an informer had reported drugs were aboard. Inspectors drilled holes in stacks of lumber planks, but found nothing. At the last moment, a Customs man saw a crew member drop a plank and glance about nervously. The inspector drilled into the board and hit white powder. The seizure was a record 3,270 kg of cocaine, but just 700 of the 9,000 planks held any drugs...