Word: standing
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Condenzio said that in response to customer suggestions, recipes for salsas and calzones have already been altered and more staff have been assigned to the Mexican food stand...
...huge cast of good actors, James Woods stands out as steely Bob Haldeman, and Joan Allen suggests in deft brush strokes a Pat Nixon condemned to stand by her ungiving man. Hopkins, though, is a failure. He finds neither the timber of Nixon's plummy baritone, with its wonderfully false attempts at intimacy, nor the stature of a career climber who, with raw hands, scaled the mountain and was still not high or big enough...
...virtual rainbow of color, gender, ethnicity, and class," he says. "Judge Lance Ito is Asian-American. Johnnie Cochran is African-American. Marcia Clark is a white woman. And Robert Shapiro, like Clark, is Jewish. A judicial landmark is being constructed by people who a few decades ago couldn't stand equally together in the same court...
...naught. President Clinton has already threatened to veto the bill for other reasons. The American Civil Liberties Union has promised to mount vigorous challenges should the bill become law, and many experts believe the Supreme Court would find such a law unconstitutional. The Congressmen who took a public stand against online indecency may have known that it would not survive a court test. But they had a chance last week to show that they understood how to apply civil rights to new media, and they failed...
Inside a packed Seoul courtroom, former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo took the stand Monday to answer charges that he accepted $369 million in kickbacks from businesses while in office. Roh admitted that he took money from chaebol, the group of 40 or so huge industrial conglomerates that dominate South Korea's economy, but said that he did not sell his influence to private interests. Roh said he received $32 million from Samsung, the nation's biggest conglomerate, but maintained he could not remember who gave him all the money he received while in office. The trial is expected...