Word: platformization
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...medicine. In a campaign dominated by education and tax cuts, his promise, made in a letter to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, that "taxpayer funds should not underwrite research that involves the destruction of live human embryos" must have seemed like a detail on the margins of his platform, like his pledge to reform the crop-insurance program...
...suit stems from a shareholder buyout by the BIS. But Howe said he’s using this primary complaint as a platform from which to allege price fixing of the gold market—the claim that he said implicates Summers. The suit says that as Secretary, Summers acted improperly to suppress gold prices...
...Playing "Kessen" makes me feel like it might just be possible to create "War and Peace" for the PS2. Imagine a game reproducing the historical battles of Napoleon, set in the sweep of a grand story. While "Kessen" gets lost in the details, it sets the platform for such a possibility...
...Turns out the 2,000 acres don't have to be contiguous and only the space of the equipment touching the ground is counted. Each drilling platform can take up as little as 10 acres. The pipelines are above ground. For space purposes, the amendment counts only the ground touched by the stanchions holding up the pipe. Road widths also are conveniently left out of the space limit. "It's a complete sham," complains Allen Mattison, a spokesman for the Sierra Club which opposes drilling. "It's like a fishing net. If you count just the space of the string...
...purpose of negotiating a final peace deal with the Palestinians had been to settle Palestinian political claims against Israel and create a basis for stable coexistence between two states. A unilateral "divorce" would leave many of those claims unresolved, and create a Palestinian state that served simply as a platform for war against Israel. Indeed, the only Arab leader to have made any gains from the intifada has been Saddam Hussein, who has styled himself the savior of the Palestinians, not least through substantial financial contributions to families of sons "martyred" in the intifada. Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian group...