1.   And even Buchanan won his platform fight.

2.   A few suggested that platform fights and formal, podium-bound nominating and keynote speeches might now be passe.

3.   But just as Republicans had to struggle through a public platform fight over abortion, so too will Democrats have to put their differences on display.

4.   For the Dole campaign, the flurry of speculation about Kemp was welcome relief from several days of unfavorable media coverage of platform fights over abortion.

5.   Massachusetts Gov. William Weld left San Diego on Monday to protest the way the abortion platform fight was resolved.

6.   Mixner said gay rights advocates were considering waging a platform fight on the issue at the Democratic National Convention this summer.

7.   Platform fights are tedious.

8.   The platform fight on television was said at the time to have hurt the Goldwater candidacy.

9.   The platform fight on television was said to have hurt the Goldwater candidacy.