Word: platformization
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...less than 15 years ago that the social issue platform requirement was implemented. To hear the official line on it, though, Miss America has always carried the torch for women’s rights. And though the incongruity of a scholarship competition that requires its contestants to parade around in a bathing suit and heels is obvious to everyone—including Miss America officials—it remains popular with viewers...
...took three tries for Harold to win the Miss Illinois crown, though her abstinence-only platform of “Teenage Sexuality: Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself,” won the State Community Service Award three years in a row. She now concedes that her “controversial platform may have had an impact” on the judge’s willingness to crown her the first two times around...
Clad in a yellow bikini, Redd showed off the results of a 60-pound weight loss, emerging victorious from the Wednesday swimsuit preliminary. Gray drew raves for her violin performance, winning the talent competition for her group on Thursday night. She competed on a platform of music education...
...around the country by raking in $250,000 on the television show “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire.” She later donated a significant portion of her winnings to the 4H Club, for which she is now a national spokesperson. Redd’s platform in the Miss America pageant was “4H: The Power of YOUth...
...tables inside the once-hopping nightspot are cluttered with the detritus of a decade of business, and a massive roll of bubble-wrap rests on the platform of the stairs...