Word: standly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would "lessen the quality" of the HPT but rather that it would cause it to adopt a different quality. There is something about the show in its current form which is a unique brand of entertainment which we at Harvard and many of our theater alumni are willing to stand up for. BRYAN W. LEACH...
Moreover, for the House to occasion a trial in which Monica S. Lewinsky, Linda Tripp and other specious characters would take the stand in front of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist would be to drag this nation, weary of scandal and partisan posturing, through the mud for much...
Smaltz's case was so weak that Espy's lawyers decided not to put on a defense. Douglas, an old friend of Espy's who was meant to be the prosecution's strongest witness, turned on Smaltz on the stand and said he'd agreed to become his "puppet" only after three years of "storm-trooper" tactics by the independent counsel. "God knows, if I had $30 million, I could find dirt on you, sir," Douglas told Smaltz in front of the jury. (The amount Smaltz actually spent, through March, was $17.5 million...
...kind of thing officials in Washington and other capitals are starting to take seriously. It is very close to what happened to another ex-President, Chile's General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, in a London hospital in October. Pinochet may end up being shipped off to Spain to stand trial on charges of torture and mass murder. The families of his thousands of victims are rightly cheering, and human-rights activists are delighted that the world may no longer be safe for retired tyrants. But officials in perfectly upstanding governments note that nowhere in the rules now coming into play...
...apartment. He navigates his way through family, a friend's performance-art show, his ex-girlfriend's family, the parent-teacher party at the school where he used to work and a ritzy soiree of uptown socialites, hosted by a man with whom he once had a one-night stand...