Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House or home." In front of his Senate colleagues, with whom he is far more comfortable trading quips about subcommittee chairmen, he sounded positively Reaganesque. While his colleagues looked on in sadness, Dole announced that he would resign on or before June 11, "and I will then stand before you without office or authority, a private citizen, a Kansan, an American, just a man." He said he would do it his way, the hard way. "For little has come to me except in the hard way, which is good because we have a hard task ahead...
...challenge will be to move today's stand-alone video games onto the Internet, where players could compete against one another, even if they were playing in different cities or countries. But Miyamoto says online expenses are still too high for most vidkids; he predicts that the two extra ports on the Nintendo 64 (which will allow up to four players to compete) will suit most people just fine, at least for now. "If we are going to use the Internet for play," he says, "it has to be more popular...
...nominated for a Tony Award, JULIE ANDREWS put her foot down. In front of an adoring matinee crowd, she announced that she was bowing out of the Tonys. "I have searched my conscience and my heart, and I find that I cannot accept this nomination--and prefer to stand with the egregiously overlooked," said Andrews, still in costume. Perhaps most overlooked: director Blake Edwards, Andrews' husband, whose career could have used a boost from a Best Musical nomination. Says Tony Adams, a Victor/Victoria producer: "There seems to be a bias against commercial shows." The Tony organizers might have reveled...
...Blake is one of those people who stand out in a crowd...
...effect, the Pentagon brushed aside the President's concerns about anti-personnel mines, betting on his reluctance in a presidential election year to confront the U.S. military and limit its use of weapons. "Clinton does not have the standing to challenge the military," Thompson says. "He was wrecked on gays in the military in 1993, and he does not want a repeat of that now." Advocates of a worldwide ban on anti-personnel mines criticized the President for failing to take a stand to eliminate a weapon that kills more than 20,000 people, mostly civilian, every year, often long...