Word: platformization
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After wading to the platform through a sea of outstretched hands, the lanky, self-assured García, 36, delivered the kind of rousing, nationalistic exhortation that audiences across Peru have come to expect. "A government of the people," he declared, "is a government where the people produce their own history." In countless speeches in the countryside, in the slums of Lima and from the balcony of Government Palace, García has spread the same message: the 19 million people of his hardscrabble country can shape their own destiny, even in the face of desperate poverty...
...price of being caught can be high. Late last week, on an oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, a specially trained Labrador retriever, flown in by helicopter from Franklin, La., discovered marijuana in a worker's luggage. The employee was fired on the spot, and shared a ride back to the mainland with the dog and its handler...
...them in ragged clothes and rubber sandals, shuffled between golden ropes through Malacañang Palace, the residence of former President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda, they witnessed a show of conspicuous consumption beyond their imaginings. Inside Imelda's boudoir were two queen-size beds on an elevated platform, and a grand piano. The former First Lady's washbasin was made of gold. Downstairs, in a not-so-bargain basement, the woman who used to refer to "my fellow poor" had left behind some 2,700 pairs of size eight shoes, five shelves of Gucci handbags...
González called the vote a "triumph for the Spanish people." It was also a triumph for González. He had taken office in 1982 on an anti-NATO platform, but then changed his mind and supported continued Spanish membership. During the campaign, he hinted that he would resign and call early elections if he lost. "I always said that the final result depended on Felipe's final address, and I wasn't far wrong," said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Inocencio Arias. After lying low for much of the prevoting skirmishes, González pulled out all the stops in the last...
...receiving overseas aid. Pretoria accuses the U.D.F., whose leading members include Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Imprisoned African Nationalist Nelson Mandela, of being a mouthpiece for the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, both of which are banned. In fact, the U.D.F. has become the recognized platform for a wide range of black and liberal-white opinions. About half its present funds, which cover the legal costs of hundreds of officials and supporters who are in detention or facing trial, come from foreign donors, especially in the U.S. The latest action "will not cripple us," declared Treasurer...