Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hair, Lauristin may seem an unlikely revolutionary, but she is as much a rebel in her own way as was her father Johannes, a prominent Estonian Bolshevik. Her Popular Front has taken the organizational model of the party and turned it upside down. The movement promotes no rigid political platform, except a general commitment to democracy and pluralism, and welcomes everyone into its ranks. Its central steering committee is an umbrella organization for dozens of local chapters that open their doors to any citizens' groups with a worthy cause. In Tartu the Popular Front joined with the environmentalist Greens...
Administration sources said U.S. intelligence agencies have long assumed the Mike sub was built to serve as a "test platform" for new types of submarine-launched cruise missiles...
...month later, the situation had changed. The SDS demands at University Hall--and the subsequent, slightly different platform approved by a meeting of 6000 in Harvard stadium later that week--signaled that students and the city could unite. Harvard could no longer simply ignore its role in the city...
Minority organizations are multipurpose associations. Hsia notes that in the last election, one pair of candidates for the co-presidency suggested forming a sports team and holding card-game nights. Hsia fails to point out that these suggestions were one part of a comprehensive platform including strengthening political voice, increasing cultural activities, and aiding in the International Relations Council's Model United Nations Conferences. Additionally, the program emphasis of one particular leadership group varies over time, and it is unfair to assume that one type of activity represents the entire purpose of the organization...
PALMORE argues that in a campus-wide election, "Candidates would have to stand on a platform that could serve as a working agenda for the council throughout the year." I'm skeptical that the campaign would be conducted on such a high plane. On the contrary, I'm inclined to believe that the election would be no more than an exchange of slogans and name-calling...