Word: platform
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PAULO: Brazilians -- at least some of them -- are ready for the knife. In gubernatorial elections in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest and richest state, voters have reelected Gov. Mario Covas, a close ally of President Enrique Cardoso. That means the imminent implementation of Cardoso's own brutally honest reelection platform: more taxes, less spending and an IMF bailout that will make life tough on pretty much everybody...
With all of the swing clubs becoming increasingly over-crowded, platform shoe related injuries at peak frequency and the memory of pegged jeans still fresh in mind, the only thing left to do is to take a trip to a lost era and strike up a relationship with bowling--the sport of the millenium...
Workout: Every year around Halloween coach Miller switches things up when he has his team practice diving in full clothing. Not only that, they set up a slip-and-slide on the 7-foot platform for belly-flopping fun. There's also the annual naked dive (date withheld for obvious reasons...
...there's no consensus on whether Clinton the witness would benefit one side or the other. And that issue is probably moot since the chance is slim he'll raise his hand and swear an oath before a committee of mostly junior Congressmen peering down at him from their platform armchairs. Clinton would not be likely to have a transcendent, Ollie North moment; he's not an unknown lieutenant colonel with a cause to defend...
...Albuquerque the Greens' BOB ANDERSON pulled enough votes from Democrat PHIL MALOOF in a June special election to let Republican HEATHER WILSON win the seat. Now there's a rematch, and Anderson may ruin the Democrats' chances again--so much so that Maloof has adopted much of the Greens' platform, and House minority leader RICHARD GEPHARDT asked Anderson to drop out, a plea that was rejected. Meanwhile, in the Third District, TOM UDALL, son of STEWART UDALL, appears to be winning back a seat lost to the G.O.P.'S BILL REDMOND in 1997's special election. But the Greens' CAROL...