Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stereotypical aggressive, opinionated, arrogant New York attitude is personified in our mayor. No where else in the world would Rudolph W. Giuliani's chutzpah be tolerated, yet it is precisely what New York City natives love about him. Rudy's no-nonsense attitude and willingness to take a stand, even when that opinion clashes with the generally accepted stance, combined with his deep appreciation and love for the city and its culture make him the perfect mayor...
...Belfast with Northern Ireland?s political parties. His job got a lot harder overnight, following an IRA statement that not only dimmed hopes of imminent disarmament but actually contained veiled threats of renewed violence, and also blamed the collapse of the peace process on Britain for failing to stand up to the Ulster Unionists. The Unionists had brought the process crashing to a halt last week by refusing to join the new Northern Ireland Assembly before the IRA begins decommissioning its weapons...
...reveal the outcome of the cases. "A focus on cruise lines is overdue," says Novak. Meanwhile, some congressman are pressing for a more aggressive exercise of federal commercial and maritime jurisdiction. With Wednesday?s announcement, the Justice Department signaled it is ready and willing to take a tough stand...
...NASA has fallen since JFK fired our imaginations with his promise. "Three decades later, one of the great disappointments of the moon landing was that there was no real institutional follow-up," he says. "We did it to beat the Russians, and when we had we immediately began to stand down...
UNITED THEY STAND Conjoined twins--formerly (and politically incorrectly) labeled "Siamese"--are undergoing a pop-cultural rebirth, judging from these upcoming works...