Word: standing
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Released in 1976, Leary continued to remain in the public eye as a stand-up comic, author and Hollywood party-goer...
Each fall, members of Crimson Key watch the film four or five times to come up with new lines and allow new members to learn the snide stand...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In what they hope will be a massive end-run around politicians, thousands of children's advocates will march on Washington this weekend to plead for a renewed national commitment to meet the varied needs of children. The "Stand for Children" march, organized by Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fund (CDF), comes at a time when federal programs for children are targets of a budget-cutting Congress and of a White House that has proved willing to experiment with the social safety net. Conservative groups such as the Family Research Council and the Traditional Values Coalition...
...Even those who have become rich and traveled the world have a hankering for the past, when you had the illusion that someone--whether Stalin, the party or your trade union leader--was always thinking of you, and your chunk of kolbasa was guaranteed, even if you had to stand in line...
...says a Westerner who has been offering advice to the Yeltsin campaign, "this election will come down to a race between someone people hate and someone they fear." That means "never failing to remind them of what they stand to lose. Since Yeltsin can't win on his record, he must turn the question into what kind of future Russians want. There have been about 20 focus groups, and some of the polling is quite sophisticated," the adviser continues. "As in America, the battle is for the center. In Russia that's about 20% of the vote. They...