Word: standings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stokes and Markovic stand together, wearingmatching bull's eye buttons. They say they havenot missed a single protest since the NATObombings began except for one weekend, when theywent to Washington, D.C. for a protest in front ofthe White House...
...took a look around, counted heads -- and chickened out. "This is the wrong language and it's at the wrong time," Majority Leader Trent Lott said before the Senate voted 78-22 to set aside McCain's motion for another day. "The Senate isn't ready to take a stand yet," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "Half of them like McCain's resolution, and the other half want to keep some control for themselves and make Clinton come to them if he wants ground troops. The split crosses party lines. The leadership would rather not have to choose...
...overcome, he muses, if all the town's roofs came off and you were forced to look down--"and not just by malignancy and suffering, but by all the tenderness and joy, all the little acts of courage and kindness...to apprehend it all at once--who could stand...
...virtual-reality game, the game-pod looks like an animal kidney, and the plug (ugh) goes into a hole in your back. No big deal, says the game's creator (Jennifer Jason Leigh): "They do it in malls; it's like having your ears pierced." She might be a stand-in for the writer-director, who in Scanners, Videodrome, Crash and The Fly has dealt creepily and eloquently with the disintegration of mind and body. eXistenZ, where Leigh and Jude Law get into a virtual reality game and can't get out, is more modest than its current twin...
...everyone has been quick to give up on the shift, which for more than a week had investors rotating into the stocks of chemicals, machinery and paper companies, which stand to benefit as the world economy recovers from the Asian flu. "What started two weeks ago started too fast and was too extreme," says Jeffrey Warantz, strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. "But it's not over." Warantz's research shows that it isn't just tech stocks or large consumer stocks like Merck and Wal-Mart that are rising now. Several weeks ago, 81% of the stocks that he tracks...