Word: platform
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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King and Driskell renounced any connection to religious groups beyond their personal membership. Their platform calling for increased "community," they said, did not necessarily call for an increased presence of religion on campus. The incident attracted attention from national media to Harvard's highly competitive student body presidential race...
Gergen says he wants to use his HLS platform as a bully pulpit to expound on the unhappiness he feels prevails in some professions, including...
Satcher's platform also includes increasing immunization rates and cancer-screening--projects he also promoted...
Simpson is vocally pro-choice and hasencouraged the Republican Party to drop theabortion issue from its platform...
...founders in 1824 were moved both by the Enlightenment idea that humans could better approach God through reason than through unquestioning faith and ceremony and by an urge to create a sleek American Judaism shorn of old-world adornments. They replaced much of the Hebrew liturgy with English. Their platform pledged allegiance to traditional Judaism's moral laws (avoiding the Hebrew word mitzvoth) but dismissed ritual observances such as rules for keeping kosher as "entirely foreign to our present mental and spiritual state." Visitors to Reform temples were often asked to remove their yarmulkes...