"You use a very clean yeast and it becomes a platform for the hops".
"Office becomes a platform for interacting with other applications across the Internet," said Richard G. Sherlund, an analyst at Goldman Sachs & Company.
But Mr. Spitzer's tale also becomes a platform for Mr. Gibney's examination of Wall Street, and what he sets up as a gallery of rogues who would make the fictional Mr. Gekko blush.
They will have to shift from a command-and-control approach to one in which the company becomes a platform for employees to make the best possible use their pulling power.
"So," Walker went on, "a social space around which a whole tier of musicians, artists, writers, makers, people who just need a job, hangers-on, art historians, interns from England, his studio manager, whoever — it becomes a platform for all these people, a stage for all of them to come onto.
Sreeram Chaulia, an international affairs analyst in India, said many smaller, poorer developing countries, especially in Africa, are watching to see if the five nations can evolve into true advocates for non-Western interests or if BRICS merely becomes a platform for the interests of a new elite.
