Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production's informality makes the play diminishes tension even further. The play is staged in the round, on a scenery-free platform whose only feature is a large cube in the center. The costumes are modern and semi-casual (jackets and ties for the men, dresses for most of the women); the actors look like Harvard students at a master...
Jackson took the hour-long question-and-answersession as an opportunity to expound his "jobs,peace and justice" platform, which stresseskeeping jobs in the U.S., obeying internationallaw and working to provide "economic alternatives"for all countries in the hemisphere...
...Cambridge Civic Association has endorsed five candidates who support its platform of clean government and progressive housing legislation--incumbents David E. Sullivan, Alice K. Wolf, Saundra M. Graham and Francis H. Duehay '55, as well as newcomer Jonathan S. Myers, former director of youth programs for the Cambridge Housing Authority...
...Rashadat, Rashadat. This is the U.S. Navy. We will commence firing on your position at 1400 hours. You have 20 minutes to evacuate the platform." The warning was broadcast from a convoy of four U.S. destroyers steaming 3 1/2 miles southeast of Iran's Rashadat oil-loading platforms in the Persian Gulf. The Iranians did not reply, but within minutes 20 to 30 men were seen scrambling off the facility, situated 75 miles off the Iranian coast, and into a small boat that sped north toward Lavan Island. The warships -- the U.S.S. Hoel, John Young, Leftwich and Kidd -- then poured...
After the shelling stopped, a Navy SEAL (Sea, Air and Land) commando team in a rubber Zodiac raft tied explosives to the pilings that remained and demolished them. Five miles away, a second SEAL team boarded another oil platform abandoned hours earlier by Iranians and destroyed communications and other equipment...