Word: platformed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jiang and his colleagues dislike Taiwan's President Lee personally and believe he is bent on splitting the island from the mainland. Still, it could get even worse from their point of view. The platform of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party calls for "the establishment of a sovereign Taiwan Republic." But the straits crisis of 1996 sobered the party's leaders, and they are busy revising their approach, now saying they would hold off indefinitely on independence and use it as a defensive tool. If China became too threatening, the D.P.P. says, it would call a referendum on independence, then...
...despite her strikingly different platform, some question whether anything has changed. The council still struggles with a towering credibility problem, as even administrators admit they don't take its voice very seriously...
...group postered the Yard and set up a table tent with its platform which ultimately swayed the student body in a 1,694 to 1,472 vote calling for the return grapes of to Sunday brunch...
Beth A. Stewart '99 rode to power as president of the Undergraduate Council on a platform of little council involvement in political issues and more attention to student living concerns...
...confine her activities to Irish affairs alone. Robinson used the platform of the Irish presidency to advance her long-standing concern for human rights...