Word: stand-in
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...first step is for liberal proponents of affirmative action to acknowledge that race-based affirmative action began as a compromise, a makeshift stand-in for more substantial social policy. Unwilling to spend massive amounts of money to improve the prospects of ghetto children, the government pressured employers and universities to lower the hurdles for Black adults...
...best-selling self-help book Daniel Strong, which requires that he finagle production rights from its shady author, Dr. Waxling (Timothy Jackson). His quest leads him into a world of gore-obsessed receptionists, New York drug dealers, coked-up campaign managers and one very convincing, very scary stand-in for the Devil...
...shot in and around Vancouver this year. In Toronto movie and TV production will bring in an estimated $292 million in 1994, up from $24 million in 1983. The city -- the third largest film-production center in North America after Los Angeles and New York City -- has been a stand-in for everything from San Francisco to Boston. Due South may be set in Chicago, but it too is shot in Toronto. The main problem is keeping Canadian flags out of the background -- and making sure the place is dirty enough. "Sometimes," says star Paul Gross, "they have to truck...
Twenty-eight people attended a Kennedy rally in Lehman Hall held by the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). Outside University Hall, about 14 people participated in a stand-in to support Republican candidate W. Mitt Romney...
...unlikely that America's saltiest president had much to do with Radcliffe College. But today, a week before University of Minnesota professor Barbara J. Nelson assumes the newly-created post of second-in-command and presidential stand-in at Harvard's appendix, it's worth remembering Johnson's words...