Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would care--indeed, some people would even stand and cheer--if the council just ceased to exist for the year...
...adult responsibility, she did what so many young people do when they leave the nest: she assembled a surrogate family for herself. She chose her father figure, Bill Clinton, even before she got to town, it seems, and won him over in a panty-flash. But finding a stand-in mother took a while. For a time Betty Currie, the President's secretary, seemed to fill the role, but when Lewinsky was transferred from the White House to the Pentagon, she apparently found a new mama: Linda Tripp. Lewinsky's dysfunctional household was complete, with the result that, ever since...
...final to give me words of encouragement. "All right, Gail," she said, "go make history." On and off the track, Florence gave gold-medal performances. She inspired and motivated many people through her speech and words. How many people's lives, when we look at them, make us stand back in awe? In 38 years Florence accomplished what would take others three lifetimes to do. She was a wife, a mother, an actress and a poet; she ran, she taught, she loved. Although she retired from track and field in 1989, she left a lasting mark. She raised the standard...
...suburban districts, where the most important battles are being fought. In Oregon, Wu and Bordonaro, neither of whom has ever held office, are jostling each other for the middle. Bordonaro, 30, having run in the 1996 G.O.P. primary as a Newt Gingrich acolyte, now soft-pedals her personal antiabortion stand and her opposition to gun control. Wu, 43, who immigrated from Taiwan when he was seven, has styled himself in Clinton's New Democrat mold, stressing fiscal discipline. Both candidates say education is their top priority...
WASHINGTON: For one day, anyway, official talk about the female anatomy wasn't confined to Capitol Hill. The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a New York City zoning ordinance that banned topless dancing at the Cozy Cabin, a bar in the NYC borough of Queens -- but not without a bare-knuckle fight from the bar's owner and a dancer identified in the case only as "Vanessa...