Word: platforms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Upon winning the Nobel, Wald used his fame as a platform to advance his stance against the Vietnam...
...This predicament cannot last forever - but it can go on for a while yet. Normally the G.O.P. comes to a decision quickly, and the Democrats stretch the process into the baseball season, bickering over delegates, platform planks, rules and speaking rights before everyone swears loyalty to the long-settled nominee. All that, and possibly more, could happen on the other side this time. But Republicans have at least one organic strength that will help them weather this confusion: they are tops in a knife fight. So uncomfortable is the party with anything that resembles an unsettled race after New Hampshire...
...Hwang and Birnbaum are still roommates in Eliot House, where Hwang keeps Harvard on its toes in more ways than one—most recently, in last year’s bid for presidency of the UC with a “Kill the UC” platform. Hwang and his running mate, Alexander S. Wong ‘08, met as freshmen. “You go grab a coffee with him, and next thing you know you’re vice-assistant director in one of his think tanks,” Wong said. The campaign was unsuccessful...
...promote change. David Gergen, the director of the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, said Al Gore ’69 has successfully used the threat of impending disaster to publicize the cause of tackling global warming. “You have to create a burning platform and the sense that we are going to sink,” Gergen said. Turning toward the coming presidential election, the panel took on issues ranging from the “Mike Huckabee phenomenon”—the presidential hopeful’s surprising success in Iowa?...
...Association—while touting their track record of working with the College administration.Both Sundquist and Sarafa have served on the UC for three years and collaborated as freshmen on a successful effort to secure universal swipe card access.The winning ticket has also repeatedly emphasized the feasibility of their platform throughout the course of campaigning. In the run-up to the election, Sundquist met with key administrators, including Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam, to make sure that the agenda he would pursue as president would be actionable.The central plank of the Sundquist-Sarafa platform was a push...