Word: stand
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...most preeminent university in America, Harvard could take a stand,” said Alexander Chester, a third-year law student. “It would be a good moral stance and financial one as well...
...they have given up cost-of-living allowances, overtime after eight hours in place of wage increases, a holiday, some break time, the jobs bank and education benefits. Entry-level wages have been cut in half, which has translated to even lower production-labor costs. "We will not stand for further concessions negotiated by our representatives," proclaimed a resolution that was turned in for consideration at the UAW convention in June by workers from the Ford assembly plant in Chicago. "I've never seen people so frustrated," says a veteran UAW official in Detroit. "These are hard jobs. You might...
Merriweather, however, certainly deserves a chance to prove himself. Though he has the unenviable job of following Winehouse and Adele out of Ronson’s stable, if each song is left to stand on its own merits, Merriweather’s work proves to be exactly what he was presumably trying to deliver: a collection of good-to-great soul-pop songs. It’s a hit-or-miss endeavor, but Merriweather hits more than he misses...
...He’s done improv comedy, he’s done stand-up comedy, he’s produced movies and directed,” said IGP member Benjamin W.K. Smith ’12, who also heads On Thin Ice, Harvard’s other improv troupe. “He’s done it all in terms of the comedy scene...
...Minimalism, Horn’s work has traces of the movement—seriality, utilitarian materials, and austere simplicity and beauty. Perhaps some of the most Minimalist pieces in the exhibit, collectively called “White Dickinson,” six bars of cast aluminum and white plastic stand propped in a room evenly spaced from each other. Despite the solidity of the bars, this propping invokes fragility and impermanence, producing an enigma...