Word: plat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adds Minnesota's Magrath, "Political plat forms don't mean a darn thing...
...have such different athletic backgrounds at least as far as athletics at their respective institutions go, the two presidents are philosophical teammates. In an intercollegiate sports world increasingly taught with scandal and money woes they seem almost naive. They support the time honored cliche that although college sports can plat an important role academics should always come first...
...colleagues the author traveled more than 6,000 miles and spent a year choosing and testing the 400 recipes in the book. Their salivant safari takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the Alps, from the sands of St.-Malo to the beaches of Nice, with hardly a dull plat en route. Willan succeeds admirably in analyzing the tastes, products, humors and quirks of each region. She proffers such delicate provincial dishes as dandelion salad, poularde en demi-deuil and sole with stuffed artichoke bottoms (preferably using the slippery little fish known in Bordeaux as "lawyers' tongues"), as well...
...addition, Kennedy intends to urge adoption of an "accountability rule" that would require the Democratic presidential nominee-all but certainly Carter-to state in writing any reservations that he may have about the party's platform. At least three planks in the plat form could embarrass Carter. One is a commitment to an is sue he would rather have avoided: civil rights for homosexuals. The platform not only pledges to protect people from discrimination based on "sexual orientation," but also calls for Government action to achieve this goal. The second is a departure from Carter's commitment...