Word: standed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the departure this year of longtime Councillor Saundra Graham, Wolf becomes the only woman incumbent with a strong stand on women's issues. Most recently, she sponsored an order to put the council on record as pro-choice. Despite Wolf's advocacy of the move and support from Graham and Duehay, it was defeated by the council's conservative bloc...
...economic incentives for the real estate industry to abolish rent control have only increased. The average rent-controlled apartment is valued at $25,000, according to both sides of the 1-2-3 debate; in the free market, these apartments would sell for more than $100,000. Large landowners stand to make millions of dollars, if only Cambridge voters would let them...
Musically, while the lack of a stand-out single does make Built to Last appear less commercial than 1987's In the Dark, the album does retain the dominant vocals and background instrumentation that have defined the Dead of the 1980s and set them apart from their psychedelic past. Bob Weir's "Victim or the Crime" is the exception which proves the rule on the Dead's newest release--this seven-minute, 33-second composition quickly devolves into a reflection back on some of the Dead's early tonal experimentation and instrumental jam sessions...
...matters stand now, Thornburgh has a monopoly on all public knowledge of what's going on at the Justice Department. Those who disagree may go to jail...
...about one hour, the officers in trainingsat in disciplined order in a second-floorclassroom, uniformly shooting up and down toshouted commands of "Stand By" and "Waiting onDeck...