Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision, the Senate has taken a dangerous step of potentially global proportions. While there was never a guarantee that other nations would sign the treaty based on the United States' decision, it is understood that we would serve as one of the primary supports upon which the CTBT would stand...
India and Pakistan, which both recently alarmed the world with news of their own underground tests, had indicated their decision would be based on the United States'. Many other countries are also looking for U.S. commitment before taking a stand. Following the vote, several nations condemned the Senate for its decision, calling the vote "a serious blow," and "a setback to the process of nonproliferation and disarmament...
...peers, high tech meant the cold, gray establishment that they were revolting against. Jobs knew better. "Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist," he says. "Michelangelo knew how to cut stone at the quarry. Edwin Land at Polaroid once said, 'I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science,' and I've never forgotten that...
...hypothalamus. Among the most important: a large region called the cingulate cortex, which not only receives sensory input from the skin, muscles and internal organs but also sends out signals to initiate movement and focus attention, as when emotions send our blood pressure soaring or make our hair stand...
...that, essentially, desperate disease requires a desperate cure. As the Unabomber manifesto put it, "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race." In the Unabomber's mind, society was in desperate need of a brave and brazen savior who wouldn't let murder stand in his way. "Well, let me put it this way," Kaczynski says. "I don't know if violence is ever the best solution, but there are certain circumstances in which it may be the only solution...