Word: standing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stand on contraception, divorce and the ordination of women, I nominate Pope John Paul II for Man of the Year ... the year...
...risky Middle East stand...
Washington's main worry now is who will succeed Park, and what the new President will stand for. According to the constitution-which foreign observers believe will be honored by the interim government-the 2,583-member National Conference of Unification, which is a kind of electoral college, must meet within 90 days and choose a President. Observers in Seoul very much doubt that Park's successor will be Acting President Choi, a bureaucrat who seems to have neither the stature nor the following...
...open door, feet up, talking shop with an attentive colleague, while smoking an carly-morning cigar that would make Red Auerbach choke. He's got an incongruous poster of fish species on one wall of his office, and Einstein up on another; a pair of cross country skis stand in a corner. Behind him rests a picture of the first observed "charmed quark"--a species he originally identified--at which he smiles affectionately. This is the odd couple that has made brilliant, complementary contributions to what Glashow calls the "glorious tapestry of modern physics," contributions of such moment...
Danehy, who has held the city's top spot since his narrow election by fellow councilors in 1977, has moderated his once hard-line stand on rent control, and now supports a policy of vacancy decontrol--letting landlords raise rents after tenants have moved...