Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your article "Former Post-Doc Will Stand Trial" (News, Feb. 8, 1996), you tell readers that according to Dr. [Kaveh] Afrasiabi-the former post-doc in question-"[Mr. Afrasiabi's] arrest and upcoming pre-trial hearing... are the culmination of five years of feuding with Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh...
Knowles said that by the mid-1980s, the number of nominees began to fall below the number of vacancies, so the Dean on a regular basis had to invite faculty members to stand for election...
...made the battle for late night livelier than anyone might have anticipated. Nearly each week Fox and NBC issue press releases pointing to a triumph in one ratings category or another, and Mad's impressive performance has shown that SNL's supremacy may not be tenable any longer. Night Stand, a syndicated faux talk show, has acquired a small but devoted following since it made its debut in late night last fall. In it Tim Stack (who describes Night Stand as "Must Find TV") assumes the role of indulgent talk-show host Dick Dietrick, a master of the lame double...
...social purpose in 1934 (though Thomson's rationale--"They alone possess the dignity, the poise and the lack of self-consciousness that proper interpretation of this opera demands"--is patronizing, to say the least). If Four Saints is to find its way into the repertory, it will have to stand on its own eight feet...
...highway. Although the guardsmen are supposedly there as keepers of the peace, they know the mountain people regard them at best with mistrust. "To tell the truth, you have to be pretty dumb to join the Civil Guard," Corporal Lituma tells his colleague. "The pay is lousy, nobody can stand you, and you're the first one they blow up with dynamite...