Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...common discourse back into its private little holes. No longer will anyone be concerned with the great flow of Harvard students through this august school, and no longer will anyone care what mark we leave for posterity. We will go back to sipping our evil lattes, too weak to stand for anything and too lazy to care...
...under oath about the behavior of the President of the United States. Lewinsky apparently told Tripp she intended to deny the affair in her deposition and urged Tripp to do the same. Lewinsky warned Tripp that if she testified about the affair while Lewinsky and Clinton continued to stand fast, she would be isolated and vulnerable and her job would be in jeopardy. Excerpts of a small portion of the tapes, released by Newsweek, quote Lewinsky discussing whether to lie about her relationship with the President. "I would lie on the stand for my family," she says. "That...
When Judge Burrell last Thursday morning denied Kaczynski's request to represent himself, the defendant could see that his lawyers would go ahead with their defense, one that portrayed him as mentally ill. And he wouldn't stand for that. He now wanted a deal...
...Fifth Avenue, is to experience one man's extraordinary sense of rebellion and restraint. A small fraction of the size of the grand retail showplaces that line Madison Avenue one block to the east (Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani), Beene's store, which he visits daily, isn't meant to stand as a monument to its creator. At 70, Beene, unlike his peers, offers no secondary, lower-priced line (his clothes range from $1,500 to more than $10,000), no logoed handbags or housewares. Visit Beene's shop, and you realize there is no small piece of his world...
...confrontation with the U.S. "Sooner or later, something is going to give," PRESIDENT CLINTON said publicly last week during one of the few escapes he got from Zippergate. Privately, White House aides are suggesting that U.S. military force may soon be unavoidable. "We're not going to stand by if we feel that our interests are profoundly threatened," says one. Administration officials believe Saddam's political and military authority would be disrupted by sustained bombing--even though they acknowledge air power alone is unlikely to eliminate his capability to resume production of chemical and biological weapons...