Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moving plot, and detailed scene descriptions that Donoso's novel moves, sometimes tortorously and awkwardly, as if trying to imitate the horrific lives of the people it portrays. Within Curfew's chapters of machine guns and blood, moreover, Donoso's novel proves that even in an area where police stand on every street corner and seem planted for protection, it is unclear who is the object of their guard. In Donoso's Chile nothing is sacred, no one is safe, and even love perishes in the face of political complications and desires...
Those who oppose Dukakis generally do so because they feel he is too liberal. "I like somebody with a more blood-and-guts stand against crime and drugs," says a man at the Ochoco feed store. Eating pancakes at Barr's Cafe, Bob Clevenger, 67, a retired minister, says his main problem with Dukakis is credibility. "I don't like Bush, but I won't vote for Dukakis because he's not shooting honest. He's making claims for things in Massachusetts he didn...
...school's new president, James Freedman, has earned praise from some educators for his strong stand against the Review, including a recent speech attacking it, and what is said to be his determination to emphasize intellectualism on the Hanover, New Hampshire campus...
...four-year court battle has been hard on the whistle-blowers. Says McKay: "I would not urge anyone to subject their families to what I've had to do. If you stand up and insist on not going along with wrongdoing, you're going to have people try to crush you." Recalls Williams: "Ashland Oil had been my life. I felt fiercely loyal to the company, but I felt betrayed." Both men believe they were blacklisted by the petroleum industry after they left Ashland. The executives can hope, though, that their victory may bring about some change in corporate ethics...
...Labor Party has lost three consecutive elections to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives, and one big reason is the opposition party's stand on defense issues. Surveys show that Labor's promise to give up Britain's nuclear deterrent unilaterally is unpopular with nearly 70% of Britons, and even gets a thumbs-down from a majority of Labor supporters. Last week Party Leader Neil Kinnock announced a change of heart. British disarmament, he said, should be accompanied by Soviet concessions...