Word: standing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems of Resorts stand to hurt other gaming companies that are planning to open casinos in Atlantic City. Applicants will now get especially close and careful scrutiny, and many openings will be delayed. This may well put a temporary crimp in the earnings and stock prices of such companies as Bally, Caesars World and Golden Nugget. As for Resorts, the betting on the Boardwalk is that the commission will vote as it has in the past: 4 to 1 in favor of a license...
What led to the formation of such a group? Consider first of all what it's like to study art at an institution like Harvard. Students do stand to gain in many ways. By feeding their art work with diverse intellectual experiences, artists here are exposed to an inter-disciplinary approach that art schools alone can't offer. "I'm sure if people had wanted to go to art schools, they would have," says Adrienne Booth '80, a charter member...
...letter making the offer is couched in the friendliest of terms, in no sense meriting so curt and caustic a reply." The budding young Fascists of The Crimson may protest as they will," responded the New York Post, "but [former Harvard President] Dr. Eliot would approve of the stand...
...researchers explain, when two people stand face to face, the right eye of one studies the left side of the face of the other. The right eye, in turn, is controlled by the left hemisphere of the brain, the half that is less deft at reading images. Thus people may unconsciously mislead one another by presenting a confident or blank public expression on the right side of the face, where it has a strong effect, and by "hiding" strong emotions on the poorly perceived left side...
...need not quibble with particular findings to detect their limits. Let the stunning statistic from the Utah study stand-but add to it the universal knowledge that roughly ten out often people suffer "adverse emotional reactions" to life itself. Those who do not ought to have their heads examined. Even saints-especially saints-anguish. Evidently humankind from ages immemorial has known a rough time in that darkest gully of the year the season of the winter solstice. In fact, most historians agree that it was precisely to relieve the morbidity inherent in the season that the species invented the extravagant...