Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to take 'em over, the least you can do is join 'em," he says. An accomplished orator, he challenged and beat Congressman Robert Kasten, the official party choice, in the 1978 primary. He then went on to defeat Schreiber on a platform of open government, curtailed spending and tax relief. It was quite a feat for a political neophyte-polls a year ago showed that only 3% of Wisconsinites recognized his name...
...diplomatic corps were not so much interested in what Brezhnev said as the difficulty with which he said it. Ambassadors in a receiving line compared notes afterward on the Soviet leader's flaccid handshake and his shuffle as he mounted the steps to a speaker's platform. Brezhnev's public appearances are becoming primarily chances to examine the patient...
...each election year endorses a slate of candidates who agree to run on the same platform and support the same candidates for mayor and school superintendent. Currently, civic association members hold four of the nine city council slots, and control three of the seven school committee seats...
...platform, approved on a voice vote, called for a continuation of rent control and recommended careful city monitoring of the Red Line extension...
Funding for human services, the encouragement of long-term development in the city, and full support of affirmative action were also mandated in the platform...