Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French fries, and their little signs that indicate what bus group they are with. They are mostly silent, hunched over their sheets of cards. Occasionally a cheer will go up and cowbells will ring when someone yells "Bingo!" They scurry up, to a smattering of applause, to the platform in the center of the room to get their cash. If they don't scurry fast enough the other players hoot at them to hurry so they can get on with the game...
...Jackson will have his way with the platform, and the candidate will ignore the platform. That's the way it happens." ((Rimshot...
Dukakis ought to make farm policy a central issue of the debates if he hopes to win Illinois and the Midwest. If he has any hopes of taking states like Florida away from the Vice President, he must make his universal health-care policies a bulwark of his platform. He has to set out concrete initiatives on crises ripping their way into the media and Congress, such as Central American strife and the federal deficit...
...gumption to strut his meager stuff before the same footlights that had illuminated the talents of Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight and Michael Jackson. A second and more kindly presence kept urging him to wriggle off the hook. The next stop would be his last chance to walk across the platform and jump the first train home. "Save yourself," the voice said, reminding him yet again that the Wednesday crowd at the Apollo was the meanest, most capricious mob since the days of Nero's circus and the Christian martyrs. Arthur refused to listen, finding within his 22-year-old heart...
...Overseer's executive committee supervises all aspects of the Board, including the agenda for Board meetings, Peter H. Wood '64, one of three Overseers to be elected on a pro-divestment platform, said yesterday. "The executive committee does everything," Wood said. "Sure it's aproblem...