Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know history"; and last June, when accepting the American Institute of Architects' gold medal, he gave a kind of official blessing to it: old Bernini patting heads in the studio. "We stand at an enormous watershed," he remarked. "We stand at a place where maybe we haven't stood for 50 years, and that is a shift in sensibility so revolutionary that it is hard to grasp because we are right in the middle of it. It is the watershed between what we have all been brought up with as the Modern, and something new, uncharted, uncertain and absolutely delightful...
Judges could stand some self-imposed deadlines; in the Revlon vs. U.S. case, the judge's decision was not handed down until 1975, nine years after trial. But even the most skillful and best-intentioned judges may be thwarted by the complexity and sheer size of some cases. "How much can you narrow the issues when the question is, 'Did a two-decade course of conduct in an industry amount to willful monopolization?' " asks Judge Jon O. Newman, who presided over the SCM Corp.'s $1.5 billion antitrust suit against Xerox. Pretrial discovery took...
...Stand, King...
...Class Day Speaker Jerry van Dyke urges graduating members of the Class of '79 "do whatever you want to do as long you don't lose your sense of humor." Van Dyke--a last-minute stand-in for Leon Spinks, who misses the ceremony because of what his manager calls "transportational and chemical difficulties"--tells the Class the "I'm so hungry, I haven't had a bite in weeks." He is rushed to Stillman Infirmary after being bitten by Dean Rosovsky...
...edifice sported the red and yellow People's Republic flag. Discounting the police, the streets and sidewalks played host to a smaller crowd than usual, while the normal bustle was muted. Most of the people out on the streets were of Chinese descent. They tended to stop and stand fairly often--to watch the police and one another...