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President elect Barack Obama made the plight of the middle class a central plank of his successful campaign.

Cooperation with those partners forms a major plank of the commissions' response to promoting regional cooperation and regional public goods.

The first thing that caught my eye was children playing on a make shift seesaw, made by putting a wooden plank between the fence.

The price of plank cedar in Lahore is incentive enough to corrupt, or kill, any Green Corps men brave enough to stand in their way.

Described as the practice of lying down flat with arms to the side, to mimic a wooden plank, it involves posting photos of the participants on the net.

Over the last two decades, almost every other plank of the Communist Party's platform (world wide people's war, proletarian struggle leading to a classless utopia, a triumph over global capitalism, etc.), has been abandoned.

This, like the gold standard plank, is partly designed to appeal to the libertarian followers of Ron Paul, the Texas congressman and perennial presidential candidate who is hugely popular with the Republicans Tea Party wing.

But there is one other reason why India fell in love with cricket, which was, all you needed was a plank of wood and a rubber ball, and any number of people could play it anywhere.

At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, Truman attempted to unify the party by placing a vague civil rights plank in the party platform the aim was to assuage the internal conflicts between the northern and southern wings of his party.

So, imagine I have a plank about two feet wide and 30 feet long and I'm going to walk on it, and you see I can walk on it without looking, I can go back and forth and I can jump up and down.