Word: standly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jackson's unprecedented and welcome decision to issue his findings of fact before the final verdict may shorten the trial and avoid the unnecessary expenditure of taxpayer dollars on a lengthy appeals process. Because both parties in the case know where they stand before the verdict has been issued, they are able to make an informed decision about whether and on what terms to settle the case...
...they dangerous. The most interesting students here tend to be those who genuinely believe something, those who stand apart from the merely tolerant ranks of hollow men. Rare are the students who can keep their faith when all about them are losing theirs. They should not be taken for granted...
...hospitals such as the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the University of Florida, human trials are already getting under way. Studies at other hospitals are sure to follow. Says Black: "The astounding progress over the past decade dwarfs the progress of the past 5,000 years." Reeve may not stand up the day he turns 50, but the real possibility does exist that he will spend a future birthday on his feet...
Remember in the movie Aliens when Hudson asked, "Is this gonna be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?" Well, the 21st century is going to be one hell of a bug hunt. There's no doubt that eerie new infectious diseases will appear, and the struggles against some of them will make the fight against the AIDS virus look like the opening battle of a war. Of course, by then there will probably be a vaccine for AIDS, and the shot will cost a few dollars or be given for free...
...wilderness dwindles and disappears, more is at stake than the fate of endangered species. Other, less tangible things stand to be lost as well. Empty places have long served as a repository for a host of complicated yearnings and desires. As an antidote to the alienation and pervasive softness that plague modern society, there is no substitute for a trip to an untrammeled patch of backcountry, with its attendant wonders, privation and physical trials...