Word: platformed
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Participants encouraged the president to continue his work incorporating a values agenda into the Democratic platform...
...then elected an Undergraduate Council president and vice president who ran on a platform calling for the council to deal primarily with shuttle services and extending party hours until 2 a.m.--which, I might add, is prohibited by local law. While these issues are important to me, particularly shuttle service because I live in the Quad, they should not be the exclusive focus of an organization that can effect real change if we, as students, begin to see it that...
Simpson advised the Republican party to handle abortion like the state GOP party did in Wyoming, adopting a resolution that acknowledges the divisiveness of the issue and agrees to remove it entirely from the party platform...
That sounds sensible enough for a party with a pro-life plank in its platform, but G.O.P. leaders are worried that the resolution would set a precedent for imposing litmus tests on its candidates. It would be especially damaging to the G.O.P. in the Northeast, where pro-choicers like New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, who vetoed a partial-birth abortion ban, are already struggling to be heard over the party's dominant wing of Southern conservatives. Concerned that the resolution might pass, R.N.C. chairman Jim Nicholson took the unusual step last week of publicly urging committee members to vote...
Long live the new apolitical Undergraduate Council. Although she was elected to "de-politicize" the Council, on Sunday President Beth Stewart '00 attempted to derail the traditionally neutral grants process in a way hardly consistent with her campaign platform...