Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secret of George Bush's success is to employ muck mavens like Atwater -- even elevate them to prominence -- and then dissociate himself from their tactics. Last week the President acknowledged that the attack on Tom Foley was "disgusting . . . against everything I have tried to stand for in political life." Yet, though Atwater initially defended the Foley smear, Bush stood up for him. Atwater's fouling the civic atmosphere with vicious misinformation is bad enough; compounding that with White House hypocrisy is too much. If Bush really wants to prove himself a political environmentalist in search of a kinder, gentler America...
...death of Hu last April precipitated a crisis. When expressions of grief sparked in Tiananmen the demands for greater democracy, differences between the factions left the leadership impotent to take a united stand on how to cope with an unprecedented event. As the leaders dithered, the protest swelled...
Investment bankers, who stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars in advisory and underwriting fees no matter who comes out on top, had been hunting for months for a firm to derail the Time-Warner deal. Morgan Stanley gave its search for a spoiler the code name Project Clock. Merrill Lynch, another Davis adviser, assigned the name Space to its project. Citibank, for its part, stands to make $350 million in fees for putting together Paramount's war chest. At the same time, the bank manages 1.5 million shares of Time stock for its clients, on which they stand...
...thieves cart away everything of value: bricks, aluminum siding, copper wire, even heavy cast-iron manhole covers from the potholed streets to be sold for scrap. The housing authority complains that aluminum downspouts are swiped from its buildings within hours of installation. Trash-strewn vacant lots along the river stand in stark contrast to the gleaming Gateway Arch of St. Louis, in plain sight less than a mile away across the river...
...monologues, has long been TV's most reliable barometer of what Middle America thinks about the issues of the day. But now Johnny is just one of a late-night crowd. Jay Leno, Carson's regular fill-in as Tonight host, has added a sharp political edge to his stand-up material. David Letterman, camp counselor on NBC's irreverent Late Night, seems to have boosted his political consciousness as well -- not just in his brief monologues but in such regular bits as the often hilarious Top Ten lists. Newcomer Pat Sajak also takes regular, if timid, swings at political...