Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, disagreement over whether to oppose ROTC solely on the grounds of homophobia or to take a stand on broader issues relating to the military prompted the activists to vote down by a two-to-one margin a proposal to demonstrate today. But they agreed to hold an open meeting tonight to consider further action, such as a sit-in in the council's office...
Twenty sopranos from the Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) will accompany the Collegium in two sections of the Passion orginally written for boy's choruses. This additional soprano section will stand above the Collegium performers in the stage balcony at Sanders Theater, allowing the higher melodies to float above those of the main body of the chorus...
...Mich.) chair of the Senate Banking Committee, and Sen. Jake Garn (R-Utah), the panel's senior Republican, had been resisting amendments, arguing that the package put together privately by the committee and endorsed by a 21-0 vote last week was too delicately balanced to with-stand many changes without crumbling...
...some point, both for individuals and for institutional bodies, there comes a time when one must take a moral stand. Newspapers cannot hold themselves apart from this imperative because, contrary to what we might like to believe, we create social trends as much as we reflect them...
...need President Bush to take a stand," said Blumenfeld. "We need a positive exchange. The media can be more sophisticated. There are good, exciting and creative ways that the media can be used to pull the public into policy debates...