Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climb up the show-biz ladder had few missteps. He moved to Chicago and began honing a stand-up act in comedy clubs. "Even then he seemed to have something extra," says Art Gore, a friend from those days. "He had a rapport with the people; he could adjust his comedy to fit the audience in the club." In 1979 singer Nancy Wilson hired Hall to emcee her stage show in Chicago. When she arrived late, he had to improvise with the audience for 20 minutes. It went well, and Wilson hired him as her regular warm-up act. Hall...
...improve, so does our competition. Five years ago, we would have found that disheartening. Today we find it invigorating." That kind of ambition is essential, because U.S. manufacturers still have considerable catching up to do. If they are successful, the MADE IN THE U.S.A. label will once again stand for excellence, not just sentimental patriotism...
...Episcopal Church, numerous bishops openly oppose the denomination's official stand against ordination of "practicing" homosexuals. Some clergy are promoting more radical opinions. Carter Heyward, one of the Episcopalians' pioneer female priests, is now an enthusiastic lesbian and a theology professor at the Episcopal Divinity School in Massachusetts. In a new book, Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God (Harper & Row; $12.95), Heyward says that for gays "fidelity to our primary relational commitments does not require monogamy." She even allows for some sadomasochism...
...Game Two, the Crimson is a gracious host,playing the game by its guest's rules. The penaltybox gets more visitors than the concession stand,but Harvard remembers how to skate and score intime...
...debt of gratitude to the president of the United States, who was willing to stand up and support a minimum wage increase, thereby reversing the policy of the prior administration, which had consistently opposed any increase," said Majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine...