Word: platform
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...that he is campaigning for President he cannot suppress the urge to enlighten, to pounce on a negative outlook and offer an optimistic economic vision in its stead. His fervent embrace of the supply-side faith and its feel-good gospel of growth is more than just a political platform. It is a personal creed that has fueled his career and helped him develop a blend of conservatism and blue-collar populism that he sees as the natural extension of Ronald Reagan's legacy...
Gore, who has long-standing ties to Harvard, is one of the 12 University nominated candidates for the Board. The 12 official candidates, along with a slate of six unofficial candidates running on a pro-divestment platform, are vying for six vacancies on the 30 member governing body this year. Ballots for the election were sent to Harvard's more than 200,000 alumni this week...
...bayonet may be sheathed for now, but the harsh truth is that Haig is running on what might be called the vindication platform. Bitter at the Reaganauts for what he once called the "guerrilla campaign" against him as Secretary of State, he believes (correctly) that Iranscam is proof that Reagan indeed needed a strong foreign policy "vicar." Equally astringent on domestic policy, he castigates Washington's "fiscal flabbiness." He is likely to be the Republican most critical of major aspects of the Reagan record, foreign and domestic...
These statements by members of the Executive Committee of the Board come as the six candidates who are running for the overseers on a pro-divestment platform have charged that the University's election procedures are unfairly biased against them...
...Mathematician Iosif Begun, a 54-year-old refusenik. He was freed after serving 3 1/2 years of a seven-year term for anti-Soviet activity that consisted mainly of teaching Hebrew and campaigning for Jewish cultural rights. After being reunited with his family and friends on a Moscow train platform last week, Begun relaxed in his apartment and spoke with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson of how he passed his time in prison. A compact man with cheerful blue eyes and a velvet yarmulke covering the stubble of a recently shaved head, Begun described his regimen during...