There will be no platform fight.

The Bush team had gone to lengths to keep a show of unity, avoiding an ugly public platform fight and carefully vetting all convention speakers.

So it may be that some of the Tsongas delegates, for example, will conclude that a televised platform fight is not in their best interest.

"I hope there is not a platform fight," Mr. O'Rourke said.

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

This platform fight is dragging on and on.

All this is reflected in the bitter platform fight.

You come asking for my help now, Senator, but once the platform fight is over, it will be business as usual.

The violent demonstrations, the platform fight, Sara Moregenstern's bizarre interruption of the press conference that morning.

We've worked together on the platform fight; I know our ideals are the same.