Word: standly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steve is there, leaning against the glass wall of the T station. His shoulders slope; he holds his arms folded across his chest; his blond hair pokes out from under his backward baseball cap. He smiles, goofy, shy, maybe sheepish, when he sees Beth. Beth grins and grins. Carrie stands off to the side, crossing her legs and putting one All-star sneaker on top of the other. Beth and Steve talk for a good seven minutes. They hug. Beth moves over to Carrie; they stand conferring. Steve turns his back to them to talk to his friends. The girls...
...Citadel, which has been the unwilling focus of discussions about gender and the law throughout the decade, stands to be the defendant in another benchmark sex-discrimination case. On Tuesday, a federal judge said the South Carolina military academy could stand trial for failing to prevent the hazing of a female cadet who dropped out in 1997. Under federal mandate, the academy grudgingly admitted its first female student in 1995, who left after just six days, complaining of being ostracized by male cadets. Four more women enrolled the next year. Two, Jeanie Mentavlos and Kim Messer, dropped out within...
...Pritchard with one detail from his resume. In 1980, when he won the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, he was also named California Probation Officer of the Year for his work with kids locked up in juvenile hall. It was the kids, in fact, who persuaded him to try stand-up comedy. If he could get laughs out of hard-core punks like them, they reasoned, he ought to go cash...
...this dream. Adults healthy enough to shovel piles of coal need only register at the Severn Valley Railway school, based in Bewdley, Worcestershire. In the introductory session, they learn safety guidelines and how a locomotive works. They also put in time on the footplate--where the fireman and driver stand, stoking the boiler, firing up the engine and managing the controls. In follow-up courses, groups of four students strive to acquire enough skill to drive the locomotive. This involves learning to clean, oil and light up the engine, shunt tracks, couple and uncouple cars--and brake, no easy task...
...Rich List" compiled by the Sunday Times of London, sees nothing incongruous about his consorting with environmental militants. "I wear a suit. I run a company. I'm interested in profit," he says. "But I'm a member of Greenpeace because no sane person can argue with what they stand for. They want to stop whaling, nuclear pollution and factories dumping poisons into rivers. What's wrong with any of that...