Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over seventy years, the 1918 Treaty of Versailles would stand as the last important international security pact that the Senate failed to ratify. The streak was broken this past week when, on Oct. 13, majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) led Senate Republicans in a 51-48 vote to reject the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT...
...opened testifies to its enduring worthlessness. The ice cream parlor and candy shop are distant memories, but even Old Faithful, the coffeehouse, has closed. Now all that remains are such choices as a mediocre hamburger restaurant, whose motto may as well be "fast food served slow," and an entire stand devoted to all-natural smoothies and juices, evidently responding to the Harvard student population's clamorous demands for more overpriced drinks containing ginkgo biloba and spirulina...
...when government subsidizes empty desecration, devoid of any intellectual or artistic value, the state itself is making that determination--and this is the very evil a neutral First Amendment was supposed to guard against. So proponents of the mayor can still support his tough stand on a painting that callously juxtaposed the scatological with the divine, right? So it seems. Until, that is, they learn that Chris Ofili is a Roman Catholic who uses elephant feces as a symbol of fertility. On what possible grounds can we then deny funding to his affirmative interpretation of Christianity...
...those students and parents who need more flexibility in paying Harvard's admittedly large tuition bills, Strauss says the College offers a monthly, interest-free payment plan that she says can be considered a significantly cheaper stand-in for a credit card...
...Think of your cards as a tool. If you use them often but pay them off each month, you stand to earn perks as well as accruing a positive credit history. Though this may not seem like a big deal now, it will come in handy when you want to finance graduate school, buy a car, buy a house, etc. A negative credit history, on the other hand, can actually prevent you from making future purchases...