Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whitewater now seems destined to dog the Clintons throughout this election year. In Little Rock last week, Jim and Susan McDougal, along with Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, began to stand trial on felony charges brought by independent counsel Kenneth Starr; they are accused of fraud, conspiracy and making or causing to be made false statements to a financial institution. When Hillary Clinton testified before a grand jury last January, she made history: never before had a First Lady been summoned to do that. A memo that had been subpoenaed two years ago by independent counsel Robert Fiske was discovered...
ACTING LIKE A SPOILED RICH KID, WALL Street couldn't stand the news that another part of the economy--the one in which people work for a living--is having a better time of it. How else explain the 171-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average that, for investors, evoked memories of the Crash of 1987? The same bulls who had gleefully stampeded in the midst of corporate layoffs let out a bellow of pain last Friday, when the Labor Department reported that the U.S. had created 705,000 jobs in February, more than twice what had been...
...fact, all the conservative Republicans, from Newt Gingrich to Pete Wilson, who have sought political advantage by exploiting white resentment should come and stand in the charred ruins of the New Liberty Baptist Church in Tyler, a tiny hamlet 10 miles east of Selma, and wonder if their coded phrases encouraged the arsonists. Over the past 18 months, while Republicans have fulminated about welfare and affirmative action, more than 20 black churches in Alabama and six other Southern and Border states have been torched...
Abdul-Rauf, despite his cowardice, was undeniably coerced to compromise his beliefs. His clash with the NBA demonstrates that his previous statements about oppression and tyranny were not foolish rantings. By making him stand for a ceremony which he personally opposes, the NBA has undermined the ideals of freedom which the "Star Spangled Banner" allegedly embodies. If America was truly the land of the free, Abdul-Rauf would be free not to participate in pre-game nationalistic rituals...
...Denver Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, who refused to stand during the playing of the national anthem because of his Islamic beliefs and was suspended...