In China it was a baby sitting on a railroad platform, smudged, blood-specked, with the village burning about him and shells exploding.

An extended cold spell caused ice to build up on the aerator which was mounted on a floating platform and caused the entire platform to sink lower in the water.

Johnson was named to the Joint Committee on Conduct of the War whose purpose was to goad-on laggard Union generals ; Johnson, to no avail, used this platform to voice the urgency of military intervention in East Tennessee.

With the introduction of the ESA / 390 architecture, AIX / 370 was replaced by AIX / ESA in 1991, which was based on OSF / 1, and also ran on the System / 390 platform.

Euan MacKie, recognizing that Thom's theories needed to be tested, excavated at the Kintraw standing stone site in Argyllshire in 1970 and 1971 to check whether the latter's prediction of an observation platform on the hill slope above the stone was correct.

There was an artificial platform there and this apparent verification of Thom's long alignment hypothesis ( Kintraw was diagnosed as an accurate winter solstice site ) led him to check Thom's geometrical theories at the Cultoon stone circle in Islay, also with a positive result.

However, from ground level, this sunset would be obscured by a ridge in the landscape, and the viewer would need to be raised by two meters: another observation platform was needed.

This was identified across a gorge where a platform was formed from small stones.

Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.

The first BBS using the Apple Macintosh platform was the Austin Arts BBS, which was a dial-up system developed by Bill Hood of the School of Screenprinting in 1983.

Campbell-Bannerman was able to rally the party around the traditional liberal platform of free trade and land reform and led them to the greatest election victory in their history.

They stand on the platform where the Batmobile was, then rotates downward to another level where the sonar-modification equipment is kept, from the special Batsuit to the hi-tech weaponry.

BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform which could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Mac OS and Microsoft Windows ( Linux was not relevant as a desktop OS at the time ).

Due to Apple's moves and the mounting debt of Be Inc., BeOS was soon ported to the Intel x86 platform with its R3 release in March 1998.

Abel Pacheco was elected President, under a national unity platform, but continuing most of the neoliberal and conservative policies of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez.

Carbines were short enough to be loaded and fired from horseback but this was rarely done-a moving horse is a very unsteady platform, and once halted a soldier can load and fire more easily if dismounted, which also makes him a smaller target.

It was able to re-group after the Second World War as part of a United Nationalist Front which achieved power campaigning on a simple anticommunist, ultranationalist platform.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

Therefore, a company must analyze its business workflows and processes before choosing a technology platform ; some will likely need re-engineering to better serve the overall goal of winning and satisfying clients.

At the end of 2006, BT ( the UK's former state owned monopoly phone company ) started offering BT Vision, which combines the digital free-to-air standard Freeview through an aerial, and on-demand IPTV, delivered over a BT Broadband connection through the Vision set-top box ( BT have chosen to deploy Microsoft's Mediaroom platform for this.

In August 2009 the UK and US based company EditShare acquired Gee Broadcast and the Lightworks editing platform from, along with their video server system GeeVS.

The company also launched WebObjects, a platform for building large-scale dynamic web applications.

The company was responsible for primary engineering of the Epsilon ( I ) platform, Epsilon II platform, Delta ( I ) platform, Delta ( II ) platform, Gamma platform and played an important role in the development of especially the higher-end, more-refined version of the Gamma II platform.

Progeny Linux Systems is a defunct company which provided Linux platform technology.

As the French company Elf Aquitaine ( which reaped much of its profits from the Republic of the Congo ) had only just recently opened a large deep-water oil platform off the coast of Pointe-Noire.

In 1992, chairman Lee Iacocca retired, and the company began a remarkable revival, introducing the new LH platform and " Cab-Forward " styling, along with a highly successful redesign of the full-sized Dodge Ram in 1994.

The Intrepid, Stratus, and Neon updates of the 1998 to 2000 timeframe were largely complete before Daimler's presence, and Dodge's first experience of any platform sharing with the German side of the company was the 2005 Magnum station wagon, introduced as a replacement for the Intrepid.

Later that year, the company launched products that appear to integrate elements from both sides of the company, including the Chrysler Crossfire, which was based on the Mercedes SLK platform and utilized Mercedes's 3. 2L V6, and the Dodge Sprinter / Freightliner Sprinter, a re-badged Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van.

Quickly growing importance of Ethernet also influenced the company's product lines, prompting the company to morph the successful Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switch into all-purpose Cisco 7600 routing platform.

The platform company contracts production to outside suppliers, often in low wage countries.

Ximian was a company that provided free software desktop applications for Linux and Unix based on the GNOME platform.

After a lengthy career as a camera platform and company " hack ," CF-EJD-X was broken up in 1956.

The company took advantages of the Internet possibilities and introduced online PLM with its Version 6 platform.

Activision and Parker Brothers were the only two third-party companies publishing for the Master System in North America, but both companies withdrew their support in 1989 and neither company had released more than five video game titles for the platform.

* Lulu ( company ), an online e-books and print self-publishing platform, distributor, and retailer

In late autumn of 2005, Betfair finalised a deal that began in early summer, to purchase the online poker site PokerChamps. com, which the company will integrate into its network, replacing a poker arm that previously used gaming technology software from CryptoLogic Inc. On 30 October 2006, Betfair Poker left the Cryptologic network to move to its new platform.

For the next three and a half years, Bellamy gave his all to politics, publishing his magazine, working to influence the platform of the People's Party, and publicizing the Nationalist movement in the popular press.

In 1906, the Liberal party, led by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won an overwhelming victory on a platform that promised social reforms for the working class.

A research team led by Australian engineers has created the first working " quantum bit " based on a single atom in silicon, invoking the same technological platform that forms the building blocks of modern day computers, laptops and phones.

Upon assuming power, the FSLNs political platform included the following: nationalization of property owned by the Somozas and their supporters ; land reform ; improved rural and urban working conditions ; free unionization for all workers, both urban and rural ; price fixing for commodities of basic necessity ; improved public services, housing conditions, education ; abolition of torture, political assassination and the death penalty ; protection of democratic liberties ; equality for women ; non-aligned foreign policy ; formation of a " popular army " under the leadership of the FSLN and Humberto Ortega.

After it was reintroduced by Representative Ashley, President Lincoln took an active role in working for its passage through the House by ensuring the amendment was added to the Republican Party platform for the upcoming Presidential elections.

In 1999 a working group of leading LP activists proposed to reformat and retire the platform to serve as a guide for legislative projects ( its main purpose to that point ) and create a series of custom platforms on current issues for different purposes, including the needs of the growing number of Libertarians in office.

For a marine site, while some form of working platform ( typically a boat or ship ) is often needed, shore-based activities are common.

A working platform for underwater archeology needs to be equipped to provide for the delivery of air for example, recompression and medical facilities, or specialist remote sensing equipment, analysis of archaeological results, support for activities being undertaken in the water, storage of supplies, facilities for conservation for any items recovered from the water, as well as accommodation for workers.

A working replica of Manneken Pis stands on the platform of Hamamatsuchō Station in Tokyo, Japan.

* Elgin platform, an oil platform working the Elgin – Franklin fields in the North Sea

HUD is working to strengthen the housing market to bolster the economy and protect consumers ; meet the need for quality affordable rental homes: utilize housing as a platform for improving quality of life ; build inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination ; and transform the way HUD does business.

A generic replica cockpit with working instruments was mounted on the motion platform.

Fitted with multibeam and side scan hydrographic surveying capability and DP1 dynamic positioning, Alert can be utilised as a research platform with a large working deck.

After the breaking of an axle in 2002, all remaining 19 units ( one fell off a working platform ) were taken out of service.

In September 1883, four men working on the shaft were killed when the platform supporting them collapsed.

* Providing a working platform from which tasks such as ventilation or overhaul can be executed.

The party's platform, commonly known as the Omaha Platform, called for the abolition of national banks, a graduated income tax, direct election of Senators, civil service reform, a working day of eight hours and Government control of all railroads, telegraphs, and telephones.

In addition to the boards for the working platform, there are sole boards which are placed beneath the scaffolding if the surface is soft or otherwise suspect, although ordinary boards can also be used.

A working platform requires certain other elements to be safe.

Scaffolding showing required protection of a working platform with maximum dimensions.

Since the late 1950s, engineers at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory had been working on a new type of inertial platform that replaced the mechanical gimbals with a sphere floating in a thin layer of fluorocarbon fluid.

In the first year of operation an occasional through service was run, northbound only, to Finsbury Park, but this ended in 1908 and following that the branch was operated as a shuttle service between Holborn and Aldwych, primarily working from the through platform.

In 1997, 3dfx was working with entertainment company Sega to develop a new video game console hardware platform.