Word: platforms
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...chances of hurting yourself on a Segway have always been pretty small, and the recall doesn't change that. You really have to try-that is, confuse the machine by making it force you to slow down, hop off its platform, and then immediately jump on again-to befuddle Segway's obscure control software. Still, six people have managed to do exactly that over the past four years, and that has prompted the manufacturer to recall every last one of the machines it has sold. This is actually the second time it has had to do that...
...Applebee’s America: How Successful Political Business, and Religious Leaders Connect with the New American Community,” Fournier and political strategists Douglas B. Sosnik and Matthew J. Dowd guide aspiring politicians and business owners on how to market their platform or product in the twenty-first century. The key to winning the hearts and minds of Americans, whether selling coffee or getting out the vote is to: create a sense of community by a “Gut Values” connection, adapt to change, analyze the lifestyles of your demographic, use new mediums of communication...
...would be the youngest Japanese Prime Minister in postwar history. His crushing lead in the LDP race?Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki and Foreign Minister Taro Aso, his only opponents, are way behind?means he has been able to run a cautious, purposefully vague campaign, releasing a policy platform that runs to just four pages. "Right now he has the ability to be all things to all people," says Kent Calder, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. "But that will narrow over time." What's certain is that Abe's agenda will...
...Still, following their talks with Blair, it was announced that Olmert and Abbas were willing to hold direct talks with one another. More significantly, perhaps, on Monday Abbas concluded an agreement with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, to form a government of national unity, on a political platform that includes the 2002 Beirut proposal of the Arab League - a document that offers Israel full peace with the Arab world in exchange for a withdrawal to its 1967 borders...
Today is a great platform. Are there causes you want to advocate...