Word: standing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than the government, brought former Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida from his cell in Qasr prison for a trial before an Islamic revolutionary court. Hoveida, who served as Prime Minister for almost 13 years under the Shah, was by far the most important official of the old regime to stand trial for his life. Ironically, he was jailed by the Shah late last year on charges of corruption, in what was an obvious attempt to mollify the Shah's critics...
...outlook seems bleak enough as matters stand now. Though most U.S. gasoline stations still have enough fuel on hand to meet the demands, oil company deliveries are rapidly being pared back to stretch dwindling inventories. Exxon's supplies are becoming so tight that last week the company had to impose an $8 limit on gas purchases at its stations along the heavily traveled New Jersey Turnpike. Exxon also said it would not renew crude-oil supply contracts with other companies, a step that is going to make it harder for the firms that have been cut off to meet...
...Stand on their own? The oil depletion allowance? Enormous public subsidies for the arenas their gladiators fight in? Soon-to-be deregulated natural gas? The Warren Commission? That's what I call standing on your own in a heroic way. Let's nuke it back to the Stone Age and start again...
Backstrokers Geoff Seelen and Ron Raikula and individual medleyist Mike Coglin all stand realistic chances of placing among the top 12 in their respective events, but each must better his qualifying time (recorded at the Easterns) if he expects...
...ready to count the University out in toto but, lo and behold! out of the ashes rise phoenix-like a Faculty which dares to take a vocal stand! I can only say that the combination of scholastic integrity and humanistic concern evidenced by those professors who spoke at the Faculty meeting has cast a much-needed beam of warm light on what for me has been a steadily paling view of what Harvard's community of "educated men and women" represents. I thank those professors and sincerely hope that they may further contribute some much-needed leadership and moral encouragement...