Word: platforms
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...called a platform technology demonstrator," says Don Jorosz, from the Tank-automotive and Armaments Command Public Affairs Office. "They're just demonstrating how you can use these different technologies on a vehicle...
...Arnold Schwarzenegger has built his re-election campaign on a platform of "protecting the California dream." But this week his challenger, Democratic State Treasurer Phil Angelides, laid out his own dream theme, with a populist bent...
...best quotes are from the intersection of these different socioeconomic classes in New York. OHinLA would be boring because it would be about celebrities and everyone is in their car. But in New York you have the yuppie standing right next to the ranting homeless man on the subway platform. No matter how much money you have or where you come from, everyone is right next to each other. OHinNY is this weird way of bringing together these different people that in the real world don't have any connection to each other at all. I think the best quotes...
...sterling leadership of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and company; there are underlying structural causes of the Democrats’ serial ineptitude as an opposition party. Among the many flaws of our reified Constitution is that it intentionally undermines the development of parliamentary-style political parties. There is no platform from which to articulate a unified opposition ideology. Instead of a shadow cabinet that directly opposes the government, we have a system that makes minority leaders little more than first among equals.And as a result, the U.S. electorate has to content itself with the general gestalt...
...With main contenders Borges and Petkoff now behind him, Rosales is beginning to reveal his platform. He has promised to counter the surging housing deficit and to fight the out-of-control crime and police corruption that has fueled public anger. In an effort to move beyond his core backers in the middle class, he also promised to distribute Venezuela's oil wealth more equally than the current government, proposing a direct payoff of petro-dollars to families. That pledge, however, may sound similar to the widespread oil-funded social development programs Chavez already has in place that are popular...