Word: platforms
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...wonderfully low-key Hope Springs, www.hopespringsresort.com. Originally built in 1962 in a speck of a burg called Desert Hot Springs, Hope Springs was renovated and reopened by two designers in 2000. Today, its 10 rooms encircle three pools fed by springs beneath the property. With polished concrete floors and platform beds, the rooms are spare, but the pleasures behind the property's pale green stucco walls are not. Customers come again and again to get lost under the clear desert skies and enjoy the hotel's stylish details - such as oversized robes with HOPE stitched in silver on the back...
...Over the past half-dozen years, the platform-booted mastermind of lyrics like "You pull the trigger of my love gun" has been cultivating a financially rewarding following as a painter and sculptor. It may seem an unlikely pursuit for a musician responsible for an entire industry's worth of action figures and lunch boxes. But the Kiss Army has grown up, has children and is now ready to buy art. And Stanley, 57, indulges them with brightly hued paintings that lean toward the abstract. (Think circles, squares and geometric patterns, reminiscent of an electric Madras plaid.) He does figurative...
...said his ideal political platform would include: a 17% flat tax; private social security; arctic drilling; revoking Jimmy Carter's passport...
...Healthcare looms as one of the most controversial reforms in this package. Obama proposes to create a $634 billion “reserve fund for healthcare reform.” This national insurance program will spark some long overdue changes—like a national electronic platform for health-care records. Electronic records will make communication and exchange more convenient as well as reduce prescription errors, save lives, and reduce malpractice lawsuits. This efficiency will save taxpayers money in the long run and force modernization for hospitals that might not have otherwise done...
...even on his own, Bibi would be a bitter pill for the rest of the region to swallow. Netanyahu ran on a platform that would bring the peace process to a halt. His stated policies would continue the construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, would brook no discussion of sharing Jerusalem as a joint capital between Israel and a future Palestinian state and, instead of negotiating for a two-state solution, would focus on "economic peace," in effect giving Palestinians jobs but not their land...