Word: platformization
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...deal A pint-size version of the off-road mountain scooters found in ski resorts, it comes in metallic blue or burgundy chrome, has front and rear breaks and an oversize skateboard platform...
...venture to find some exciting way to pass through life extraordinarily. When disco was king, he sold electronic jewelry; he has also managed a British reggae band, appeared on Judge Judy, earned not much more than cab fare as a New York comedian, and ran for mayor on a platform of legalizing marijuana. (He says his loss can probably be attributed to pot smokers forgetting to vote...
...place time forgot. The train yards, the vintage Soviet equipment, the windswept platform and the concrete stationhouse slowly crumble to dust. The physical plant is a throwback. So too is the human element. There are interminable delays for border formalities, with uniformed troops surrounding the train and sealing it off, big shot officers with visored caps and polished boots tramping from compartment to compartment, demanding visas, passports, papers, documents. They are stamping, stamping, stamping with boots and rubber stamps. Then there is the waiting while the official party repeats this process in each and every compartment in each and every...
...some Israeli right-wingers have warned that a civilian court will offer a political platform to the most articulate spokesman for the Palestinian intifada. Barghouti grabbed just such an opportunity during his brief appearance Tuesday, directing his political message at Israelis. And his lawyer has also made clear that Barghouti's legal defense is rooted in the premise that the Israeli court has no authority to try his client, something Barghouti's representatives have maintained since his capture by an Israeli special forces unit outside Ramallah...
...Even if the trial does create a platform for Barghouti to address his propaganda message in Hebrew to an Israeli public made all too aware that his incarceration has done nothing to stop the relentless wave of terror attacks - and also that the open-ended war with the Palestinians has accelerated a disastrous shrinkage of the Israeli economy - it may be some time before he can reap the benefits. Israel's attorney general wouldn't have ordered the trial if he wasn't confident of a conviction. And while prison may restrict Barghouti to a symbolic presence in Palestinian politics...