Word: platforms
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...junior Drew Davis is hardly a physical presence. Yet, despite his size, he carries himself with an athlete’s grace—shoulders back, spine straight, and focused blue eyes. After meeting him, you can suddenly picture it: Davis guiding the crew team, standing on the diving platform, and churning his feet along the pavement. Davis holds the rare distinction of being a two-varsity athlete at Harvard. In the winter, he is a diver for the Crimson swimming and diving team, and, in the spring, he is a coxswain for the heavyweight crew team...
While no candidates have run on a platform of repealing or significantly weakening the controlled-choice plan, it’s an open question what changes will be made to it in the future...
...principals are empowered, and they have sought to put millions of dollars into the hands of principals to be used as discretionary funds. And Richard Harding, the only racial minority on the School Committee, has long made Cambridge’s achievement gap a significant part of his platform, and is running on his record of expanding access to summer school for struggling students and tightening certification standards for teachers...
...population is under 25. Connecting with those young people means more than just promoting pop culture, says Abdullatif al-Sayegh, 35, the CEO of Arab Media Group (AMG), which holds the MTV license in the region. "We are not introducing a music channel," he insists. "We are introducing a platform for youth, where we can bring up a lot of issues and solve them...
...years ago, the Social Democrats have been divided between centrist and left-leaning factions. The party has also been forced to watch as Merkel and the CDU co-opted some of the party's traditional turf on questions ranging from human rights to family benefits. The new platform demonstrably shifts the party to the left, a move that commentators say provides it with unity at least...