Word: platforms
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...image in America. Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley, and Phyllis Schlafly never shied away from controversy, yet provided the considerate and intelligent commentary necessary for the important issues of the day. The Republican Party should feel deeply indebted to these personalities and others who helped supply a platform that spoke persuasively to enough voters to purchase five of the last seven presidential terms, and six of the last seven Congresses...
Obama, in contrast, is so set on inoffensiveness that it’s getting hard to see any substance behind the veil of smiles and cuddles. His agenda includes eliminating poverty, creating energy independence, and building consensus between parties. Lucifer himself couldn’t take issue with this platform. All that’s left for Obama to do to cover all his populist bases is to absorb Justin Timberlake’s progressive platform of “bringing sexy back...
...oddest-looking suborbital ride, however, is by John Carmack, who is building podlike contraptions that sometimes land on all fours. Sometimes not. The Pixel, made for one, is a platform atop four tanks of fuel (liquid oxygen and ethanol). He's not strapping anyone in yet, right? "Funny you should say that," he says, picking up a motorcycle saddle at his Armadillo Aerospace shop one evening. "It goes on top of the electronic box over here. We did a parking-lot flight a couple of years ago and roughed up one of our earlier vehicles." Not to worry, he says...
...technology necessary to make a radio tape any more, and many listeners find their new music by listening to their radio stations online or through satellite stations.However, the art of the Internet-radio-CD seems destined to be a practice that will never be realized.With the introduction of the Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2007 (aka the PERFORM Act) to the Senate, the loss of Fair Use for online and satellite radio is about to become a reality.If approved, the changes to the Copyright Act would require all streaming media providers to use protected...
According to their website, the TLR has a good reason for promoting abstinence at Harvard: “Saving sex for marriage, we believe, can contribute positively to your physical and emotional health and improve the quality of your current and future relationships.” Most of their platform contains an abundance of “happy” words that make it really seem that abstaining from sex is just a positive state of being...