Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though they come from varying demographics, candidates across the board stand poised to attack this...
When the visiting team would take the field, Patkin would stand two feet behind the first baseman and imitate his warm-up. When the player realized he was being parodied, he'd turn around, only to find Patkin standing around as if nothing had happened...
...that when Fred wanted to expand his store and told the owner of an adjacent store that his sublease would not be renewed, Sharpton's organization stepped in. Sharpton sent the matter to his organization's Buy Black steering committee and announced at a rally that "we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business on 125th Street...
...chair of Sharpton's Buy Black committee, Morris Powell, had sharper words: "We are not going to stand idly by and let a Jewish person come into black Harlem and methodically drive people out of business.... We are going to see that this cracker suffers." He added, "... that cracker got to be insane. We are going to close him down...
According to sources familiar with the case, Energy Secretary BILL RICHARDSON has told aides that excessive secrecy should not stand in the way of charging Lee for downloading to an unsecure computer the so-called legacy codes that describe the performance of the U.S. nuclear arsenal...