Word: standing
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With the strong stand Harvard seems to be taking on other forms of discrimination (for example, against minorities, women and homosexuals), it is extremely disturbing to find myself as fair and even designated game for anyone wishing to take a crack at the establishment. If a full professor, such as (Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Emeritus) Lawrence Wylie, is allowed to make such derogatory generalizations about a whole sector of the student body, what is to keep other members of the faculty and the student body from discriminating based on such an unfounded characterization...
Mixing jokes with the stand-by "pick-a-card-any-card" trick and the old "remove the bra from the unsuspecting freshman," Karol spent two hours giving five-minute performances between tables. The Allentown, Penn., native promised but never delivered the "stick-your-finger-in-the-broom-handle-breaker" routine...
Congress and President Bush both agree that the $3.35-an-hour minimum wage, which has not been raised since 1981, needs a boost. But a conflict is brewing over just how far to hike it. Had the wage kept pace with inflation, it would stand at $4.46 an hour today. Bush has threatened to veto any bill that provides a base rate of more than $4.25. Last week the House passed a measure that would gradually increase the wage to $4.55 by 1992. The Senate, scheduled to take up the issue next week, is unlikely to adopt a rate...
...laws stand in the way of these scams, partly because they have taken forms that were not anticipated when current statutes were written. In addition, laws covering such crimes as interstate wire fraud are difficult to use against the relatively small swindles usually worked on consumers. The FTC has now joined forces with consumer groups, telephone businesses, securities regulators and banking officials in an organization called Alliance Against Fraud in Telemarketing, which is pressing for legislation to curb telescams. A House bill under consideration would toughen FTC rules on telemarketing and allow state law-enforcement officials, as well as companies...
...Government takes the Kalashnikov from the hands of the maniac on the school playground, it will be coming for my Winchester pump tomorrow. There is no evidence for this absurd belief, but it remains an article of faith. And it does so because the faith is bad faith: the stand the N.R.A. takes is only nominally on behalf of recreational hunters. The people it really serves are gun manufacturers and gun importers, whose sole interest is to sell as many deadly weapons of as many kinds to as many Americans as possible. The N.R.A. never saw a weapon it didn...