Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggest that the importance of this scandal escapes me because I am a foreigner. But I live here, I study here and I love this country for all the opportunities it is giving me. And it saddens me to see what America has come to. I can no longer stand idly by while the impeachment process takes place. I want to speak my mind. I want to defend the President...
Fitzgerald's "inexhaustible variety of life" is getting harder to find. My romantic notion of what the wide open American West should be is outdated, but who among us would stand in the way of the processes destroying small-town America...
Consumers pay less for a frilly, carpet-covered toilet seat at a cavernous Wal-Mart or K-mart than they would pay for that same glorious throne at a local mom-and-pop store. And, thus, the consumer is better off. Who am I to stand in the way? By criticizing this trend, I am not trying to advance a socialist agenda, I am merely lamenting the disappearance of small-town America, the America suggested to me by Norman Rockwell paintings...
Your item "Should Investors Tee Off?" [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR MONEY, Aug. 31], about a new golf investment fund, incorrectly said, "Asia's woes have been a drag on...Family Golf Centers." Family Golf has no Asian exposure. We operate more than 100 stand-alone golf driving ranges, exclusively in the U.S. and Canada. Perhaps the fact that the firm was founded by two highly successful Asian Americans--Dominic Chang and Krishnan Thampi--somehow confused you. Family Golf's recent share-price slide has more to do with the overall weakness in the small-capitalization market than the economic Asian...
...simply weak? A bumbler? Incapable of running a tight ship? It's a fear that Clinton's Swaggart act doesn't alleviate--in fact, for some guys, it makes it worse. "He's wimping out," the sailor sighs after hearing about yet another Clinton apology. "I can't stand to watch it. A President wimping...