Word: standing
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...semester, but only 26 are still registered for the course. The reasons? Most students, according to The Princetonian, are frustrated with the course’s "pace," with one student even complaining that some of her compatriots "actually liked the material so much that they couldn’t stand going over Aristotle in a day." If we found ourselves trapped in a rural New Jersey hamlet with absolutely nothing else to do, we too would want more time to hear ourselves talk about books we spent fifteen minutes reading about on Wikipedia...
Harvard coach Tommy Amaker reflected positively on Curry’s play, especially the guard’s defensive stand against Penn’s premier player, Zack Rosen...
...geopolitical interests in the Middle East. Though the Bush Administration first toyed with toppling the Assad regime and then settled for simply ignoring it, Obama has tried to coax Syria away from the so-called rejectionist crescent - the arc of countries and militant groups from Tehran to Gaza that stand in opposition to U.S. and Israeli power...
...world, it is still unclear how that transformation will affect the human rights and human welfare of the world's population," noted Clinton. That's because "on their own, new technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress, but the United States does; we stand for a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas." (Read about internet searches in China...
...carefully choreographing their executions to shock the world. As the fates of several hostages hang in the balance in Mali and Mauritania, Western governments are grappling with how to deal with the growing problem: should they pony up hefty ransoms time and again to save their citizens, or stand by the time-worn policy of refusing to negotiate with hostage takers...