Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fellowship decided to take a stand on a political issue as part of its "commitment to avoiding lopsidedness," said Young. "We need to start integrating what we believe and what we say with what we do," said Minority Student Alliance founder Curtis Chang...
Dukakis campaigned without letup on his pledge to stand up for "average working families." Grabbing rest when he could on his plane, he flew to asunrise political service in Cleveland, then arally in St. Louis, where he was greeted by a bandplaying "Rock Around the Clock." Still to come wasmore campaigning on the West Coast, then anothermiddle-of-the-night flight to an Iowa rally andelection-morning appearances in Michigan...
...that the fans don't show any enthusiasm--it's just never directed at the game. A 20-yd. Flutie to Stanley Morgan completion isn't enough to prod the spectators to stand, but a time-out rendition of "Twist and Shout...
...shareholders and investment bankers is not necessarily good for the country. Certainly the thousands of workers who have been laid off as a result of KKR's deals see little virtue in leveraged buyouts. Top executives go along with or even instigate buyouts because as major shareholders they stand to profit. The resulting companies may be leaner, but often they are also weaker, with little money to invest in expansion or innovation. Says Michel David-Weill, the French senior managing partner of the Lazard Freres investment firm: "The wave of leveraged buyouts is weakening the competitiveness of many U.S. companies...
...attractive to the public. The average tariff on American goods entering the Canadian market is 2.8% -- the figure is low because 65% of American imports pass duty free. On goods entering the U.S., the average tariff is only 1.2% (80% of Canadian imports are duty free), so Canadian consumers stand to gain more than their American counterparts from a lowering of the walls. Perhaps even more enticing are the 250,000 jobs that could be created over a decade by improved north-south trade...