Word: platformization
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...When we ask, Pim insists she is 19. She's probably closer to 12. Less than 1.5 m tall, her platform heels only highlight how short her legs are. Her tissue-stuffed bra emphasizes her flat chest. And the bright green eye shadow and heavy rouge she wears give her all the vampishness of a seventh-grader playing the clown in a school play. The most popular of the girls in her brothel, picked out by up to three customers a day, she insists she has never been happier. But sitting in a restaurant by the Nam Ruak River...
...promised money for the child's labor, is that a salary or a purchase price? Lured by an agent with promises of money, 14-year-old Andy Irawan's parents forced him to join a group of eight other boys living on a jermal, a tennis-court-sized platform of rotting wood and leaky, rusted roofs 10 km off the north coast of Sumatra in the Malacca Strait. The boys are promised pay - around $30 at the end of a three-month stint. But after deductions are made for food, the agent's cut and other fees and expenses...
...working day on a jermal lasts 18 hours and the boys are isolated; their only contact with the outside world is when operators pick up the catch and drop off water, rice and instant noodles. Flattened cardboard boxes serve as mattresses. Mangy dogs defecate on the platform surface where fish are sorted from the sea snakes and jellyfish. In the past five years, six boys have died at sea, the victims of accidents and failed escapes. Andy was rescued last July, one of scores of boys who have been removed from the jermals since the International Labor Organization began...
...minded political élite" and a "cult of the all-powerful state." His immediate goal is to make his radical reform program an issue of wider public debate, but he acknowledges initial success with that would oblige him to run for the presidency. "Only a President elected on a platform of fundamental reform would have the determination and legitimacy with voters to enact such changes," he says, puffing on his trademark cigar. "If I were to run, it wouldn't be to seek power. Just to hold power...
...vice presidential running-mate Anne M. Fernandez ’03 were elected on a platform that also included increasing the size and visibility of concerts at Harvard and providing students with weekend shuttles to New York City...