Word: standing
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...Today was a good showing of where we stand. We showed that we have the power of a wooly mammoth, the stamina of an okapi, the spring of a wallaby and the intensity of a mother bear guarding her cubs. In a nutshell, we're ready for Yale...
...trial unfolds, our governmental system is being stretched to the limit. North should be held accountable if he committed such crimes; no American, whether in government or not, is entitled to stand above the law. Unfortunately, national security concerns have made giving North a fair trial extremely difficult...
...wonder the Asians are seeking additional markets besides the U.S. for their products, and currencies other than the dollar for their reserves. The political side effects are subtle but troublesome. The U.S. is caught in what former Secretary of Commerce Peter Peterson has called "the awkward attempt to stand tall while on bended knee...
...report cast a spotlight on the quiet but crucial duel between Greenspan and George Bush over U.S. economic policy. In its stand against inflation, the Fed has resolutely tightened credit since last March, when the prime rate stood at 8.5%. But Bush, even though he pledged during the fall campaign to drive inflation down to 2%, insisted two weeks ago that he is not "overly concerned" about the threat of rising prices and cautioned that he "would not like to see" the Fed push interest rates higher. In Tokyo last week, Bush asserted that the Fed might be overreacting...
Robbins' return to musicals would be on his own terms: no balky collaborators, plenty of time and money. "I didn't want a new show," he says, "and I didn't want it to be the story of my life -- 'and then he - wrote.' I wanted the pieces to stand on their own. So I went to the Shuberts and said, 'I want to put these pieces together. Maybe I'll just photograph them and put them in a museum.' They saw me through that period; that was a million dollars. Then I said, 'I think there's a show...