Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year later, academic departments, prompted by the Educational Policy Committee (EPC), are at various stages in the process of reevaluating where they stand on concentration requirement reform...
...guys stand at a urinal," Helgen says. "That worked pretty well. It's hard to keep that up for a long time, but I don't think it was noticed...
...collection ends with a group of photographs that are more satirical than light-hearted or abrasive, as in "Real Estate," a photograph that depicts three insects hanging onto three separate branches stuck into three separate, walled-off areas of plots of land. In "Heroes," three insects stand atop white platforms of varying heights, their arms outstretched in a victory pose, while in "ship of fools," three insects look out into the distance from the bow of an oyster shell, while another tires to pull a drowning companion aboard...
Ironically, it is the survivors of the Columbine massacre, rather than the families of the dead, who may stand the best chance of collecting. The grimmest TV footage out of Littleton was of a badly injured boy dangling out of a window until he could be rescued by a SWAT team. Patrick Ireland, 17, was shot in the brain and is partially paralyzed on his right side. He is likely to have enormous medical bills for years. If victims like him were to seek redress in court, it would take a jury with a heart of stone to send them...
Rule 4 If you can stand it, play the game with your child...