Word: platformization
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...comes as a surprise to me that, at an institution like Harvard, there is no academic platform for the discussion of science and religion, and that science professors continue to display a lack of interest in and even hostility towards any discussion of the interface between science and religion...
...site intended to provide undergraduates consolidated access to mental health resources on campus. The site, which includes contact information for campus help organizations like Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) and Room 13, was originally proposed in April as a part of the UC’s platform for “Mental Health Awareness Month.” Rebecca L. Eshbaugh ’07, co-director of the Room 13 counseling center, credited the new Web site with doing the legwork that previously hindered students’ ability to find available resources tailored to their needs...
...Although widely anticipated, Sarkozy's triumph nonetheless elicited an explosion of joy from supporters of his law-and-order, free market-reforming platform aimed at jump-starting France's sluggish economy. "This is a victory for the value of work and merit," exclaimed 19-year-old law student Thierry Bombet as he joined a cheering crowd of 10,000 celebrating Sarkozy's victory in the Place de la Condorde. "France is the only country in the world with a 35-hour work week - that's ridiculous!" agreed 21-year-old engineering student Fabien Pioli against the din of aging rock...
...find baffling, the so-called “right-wing” Sarkozy proposes to introduce desperately needed affirmative action programs to France (hitherto unknown in this welfare state) while the “socialist” Royal vigorously opposes them. Sarkozy’s opponents claim that his platform is “brutal” and that it will rend the French social fabric. Depressingly, French youth (especially those in the banlieues who would particularly gain from his fresh approach), seem the most susceptible to these arguments and are the most passionately aroused...
Sarko’s platform would be a “rupture” (his signature word) from France’s current economic and social model, but a rupture is required if the country is going to reverse its economic and social decline. Though some of his rhetoric has needlessly offended the very people he is most likely to help, Sarkozy is closer to Blair than to Thatcher and is the candidate making serious proposals to create employment and enhance France’s place in the global economy...