Word: stand-in
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...Muslim leaders. Originally he planned it for Mount Sinai, but the location was dropped as logistically difficult. Then Jerusalem's Grand Mufti Ekrema Sabri, the chief Muslim leader in the Palestinian territories, declined to meet with the rabbis, whom he accuses of making "anti-Muslim remarks." To provide a stand-in, Arafat promoted religious judge Sheik Taysir Tamimi from a lesser position to deputy chief of the West Bank Islamic Courts...
Surprise! It was the American in a close one, and by the end of it all, "Night Stick" had sent the Serb stand-in running peevishly out of the arena...
...those students and parents who need more flexibility in paying Harvard's admittedly large tuition bills, Strauss says the College offers a monthly, interest-free payment plan that she says can be considered a significantly cheaper stand-in for a credit card...
With all the complications, why don't companies cut the crimson tape and use a stand-in for Harvard? The failed sitcom "Boston Common" was set at a fictional university much like Harvard. On another show, crimson shorts stood in for an official Harvard pair...
...Gore and the President. But Hillary and her team believe it is most important to ever-so-gingerly demonstrate that she is not his policy clone. (When she considered running for Governor of Arkansas in 1990, Morris has said, his polling indicated that voters would see her as a "stand-in" for Bill. She won't let that happen this time.) And so last week Hillary began opening up about policy agreements and disagreements--programs she had fought for behind the scenes at the White House, such as the child health-insurance plan called CHIP ("I worked very hard...