Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mann's colleagues said his initiative and dedication in AIDS-related work and his constant campaign for human rights made him stand out personally and professionally...
...younger daughter Tatyana Dyachenko. Yumashev is a "wholly privatized" Berezovsky subsidiary, says Aksyuchits, and Dyachenko is allegedly beholden to Berezovsky for his handling the family's finances and making generous contributions to her father's re-election. Both advisers have for several months been privately urging Yeltsin to stand down, Aksyuchits tells TIME: "They almost succeeded in July, but Nemtsov and Chubais were able to stop it." Yumashev and Dyachenko argued that Chernomyrdin was the only person who could protect the President and his family from being "torn to pieces" by their enemies after he left office, says Aksyuchits...
...least, disaster scenarios like this remain only hypothetical. Perhaps that's one reason most people don't pay much attention. Homes still rise on the barrier islands off North Carolina. On Galveston's westernmost beaches, where the land is barely above sea level, luxurious new mansions stand atop stilts so tall the scene is almost comical. Just a few minutes up the road, however, there's a poignant monument to this sort of denial. Hard by bright blue signs marking Galveston's primary evacuation route, a small plaque commemorates the site where the hurricane of 1900 destroyed an orphanage...
...marriage remarks he's been forced to make before the piece has been published -- or even turned in. "Now I want to tell you: If something comes out, that you read about, that you think Danny shouldn't have done, I will own up to it," Burton said stand-uppishly, today. "I won't lie about it. I will tell the truth." How inspiring...
...small graves lie in the southeastern section of the old cemetery, near a stand of pine. They are surrounded by the resting places of other infants, many of whom never received first names: here is a placard denoting Baby Girl White, and another for Baby Boy Morris. Only a few life spans are commemorated, and many of these are shockingly short: weeks, days and even hours. Russ Briggs comes here often; he cannot stay away. "Those two, right there, those are my boys," he says, his voice cracking. "I could have saved them, but I let them...