Word: platforms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...today. Most important: leadership matters. Notably, South Korea came out of the crisis far stronger than when it went in. Like in the U.S. today, the crisis swept through the country during a presidential election campaign. Kim Dae Jung, a longtime dissident who ran on a left-leaning economic platform, rocked markets with the suggestion that he might repudiate an International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue plan. But after he was elected, he not only signed up for a $57 billion IMF package, he embraced even more sweeping reforms than the IMF called for. By the time the storm had passed...
...most potent weapon in Ventura's triumph was his up-the-Establishment attitude, his platform quotations from such political thinkers as Jerry Garcia and Jim Morrison, his TV commercial showing him as an Action Figure doll doing battle with the Evil Special Interest Man. ("I don't want your stupid money," growls the Ventura doll.) Some may call it the Revenge of the Couch Potatoes, but Ventura's campaign galvanized younger Minnesotans. They swarmed to the polls to register and vote on Election Day--Minnesota law allows same-day registration--in such numbers that some polling places...
...book you write that at one point, you decided to "unlock the potential of Downing Street." A prime minister's wife had never before used the office as a platform to pursue important international and humanitarian aims. Did that distract people from your husband's goals...
...Power Vote campaign aims to promote energy and climate issues by encouraging voters to focus on a platform that supports clean energy, green jobs, and cutting dependence on foreign oil. The pledge also commits voters to holding their representatives accountable to the platform once in office, with prepared instructions for lobbying, phone-banking, and organizing like-minded voters...
...issues in the upcoming election, to be achieved by mobilizing young voters, is naturally a positive one. And the methods to be used are even better. Youth volunteers both on and off college campuses across the country are reaching out to their peers, outlining Power Vote’s platform and asking those who agree with it to vote for green candidates and sign a pledge to environmental goals. A million of these pledges will be delivered en mass to incoming politicians, serving as a concrete reminder that young voters not only care about environmental issues and but we also...