Word: platformization
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...hold council executives will endow those offices with a new credibility. Robert M. Hyman '98-'97, the newly inaugurated president, seems to understand that this new stature will be possible only if the council keeps student interests at heart. The "Students' Bill of Rights" which served as his campaign platform, accurately assesses the needs of undergraduates for the most part, even if it falsely couches our desires in the language of rights...
Such talk clashes with the effort to have Zyuganov appear as a reasonable person who wouldn't dream of wrenching the nation back to a past so many revile. "We won't try to renationalize everything," says Zyuganov, ignoring his own party platform. "That could lead to civil war." But, he invariably adds, we would "of course consider" renationalizing those concerns that have been "privatized illegally." All of this is part of the Zyuganov two-step. He rants against capitalism and the West before audiences nostalgic for the Soviet Union--and tamps down the fire when he talks to moderates...
...part, the Likud finally and officially buried old threats to undo the peace agreements that established Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. According to the party's new platform, a Likud government would "honor international agreements" and "recognize the facts created on the ground by the various accords." Netanyahu, having said he would never meet with Yasser Arafat, was compelled to concede that he might...
...seems, and the unemployment rate is a low 5.4%, courtesy of the more than 8 million jobs created, ahem, in the past 31/2 years. Yet the anxiety rate among workers, still being spit out in huge numbers by a transforming economy, is high enough to give the Democrats a platform. And Clinton will use it to spotlight corporations--Procter & Gamble, Harley-Davidson, Xerox and Starbucks--that the Democrats believe are "doing well by doing good...
Back in 1988, when he was just another guy getting off a subway train in Harlem, Samuel Jackson caught his foot in the door and was dragged 300 ft. along the platform. He sued, and has finally been awarded $540,000. To paraphrase Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction, "You will know what my name is when I lay my vengeance upon thee...