Word: standings
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...their attacks have been surprisingly ineffectual. One traditional developmental [psychologist]even admitted, not long ago, that they still can't prove that parents have any long-term effects on children. She continues to hope, however, that someday they will find the proof they are looking for - proof that can stand up to the scrutiny of skeptics like me. (See the best and worst moms of all time...
...What Helling had just done was the equivalent of turning up all the lights, clicking off the music and announcing the party was over. "He was the first guy," David Cone said, "who had the guts to stand up at a union meeting and say that in front of everybody and put pressure...
...basketball (15-8, 7-2 Ivy) game against Princeton (9-14, 4-5 Ivy) last Friday, then you missed arguably the most exciting game the Lavietes Pavilion has seen all school year. The giant “H” that lies prominently at half court almost seemed to stand for “Houdini” rather than “Harvard” in the second half of the game...
...they were smaller. If I were to act on a new retail concept today, I would ask, 'how do I marry the idea of a physical asset with an online world?" So rather than saying 'I'm going to have Victoria's Secret and then have victoriassecret.com, can I stand back and conceive of an online business which has a physical manifestation that drives...
...economics professor who authored Blue Laws: The History, Economics, and Politics of Sunday-Closing Laws. Blue laws, which restrict shopping of any kind on Sunday, date back to the colonial era, Laband says. However, those laws gradually died off as economic forces made some states realize that they could stand to gain by having stores open on Sunday. For example, the entry of women into the workforce in World War II made weekend shopping a necessity. (See pictures of Denver, Beer Country...