Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago El Salvador seemed to be at the threshold of an era of peace and progress. Jose Napoleon Duarte had just been sworn in as the country's first freely elected civilian President in more than half a century, and his platform promised an end to a bloody civil war that was then nearly five years old. The new President boldly proposed peace talks with the Marxist rebels, then met their leaders at a church in La Palma, a town in guerrilla-held territory. Buoyed by generous aid from the U.S., Duarte vowed to revitalize the country's moribund...
...distinction between a valid field of study and a political platform is the ability of the former to allow for discussion and debate. The latter, like Women's Studies, is only a point of view or at most, "the study of a point of view by those who hold that point of view...
...same is not true of a political platform. Either you follow it or you don't; there is no room for different "interpretations" of the same platform...
...make up the third Kennedy generation. In 1979, after a checkered academic past, Kennedy formed Citizens Energy, a nonprofit corporation that distributes low-cost heating oil in Massachusetts. Throughout his race for the Cambridge seat being vacated by House Speaker Tip O'Neill, Kennedy has campaigned on a platform of fiscal responsibility, shunning the kind of straightforward, do-good liberalism that he advocated in his younger days...
Robert Dole. Though his party's loss of the Senate will free him to travel more ("I won't have to be here to turn out the lights every night"), the Kansan loses the majority leader's platform that helped turn him into Bush's closest rival for the G.O.P. nomination in 1988. His adroit performance over the past two years was what helped him to seem so potentially presidential...