Word: standly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans want to portray the President as a bungler who?s allowed defense capabilities to diminish for six years," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. Party leaders stand ready to argue that America was not adequately prepared for the current war, and that the country is not ready to fight in a second theater should another crisis suddenly arise. The strategy of attacking the President?s military policy in the midst of a war has its risks. "Democrats can certainly be counted on to argue that the GOP is merely playing politics," says Dickerson. "And Republicans are also mindful...
...plan sounds controversial, it is--at least to older workers, who stand to lose the most. Says David Certner, senior coordinator for economic issues at AARP: "Just when you're about to get to the most valuable part of a plan, it's not there anymore. It takes away an incentive for older workers to stay...
...extended until it enveloped them. The shadow, Hart explains, was done in blood red to indicate Christ's sacrifice on the cross. The Chick and B.C. were now drawn in white because "His blood has...made us white as snow." In the strip's last balloon, B.C. says, "I stand corrected," which is part of a conversation he has been having, but also a powerful pun: they have been "corrected" insofar as Jesus' blood has washed away their...
...that stand as fair warning to the ad community...
...friend, a lawyer, William, who might want to keep things platonic. Not much happens in this novel (and some of what does happens a bit too randomly), but Claudia is endearing because she remains appreciative of her own grittiness. She avoids coming off as Bridget can: like an unfunny stand-up comic bemoaning the fact that she doesn't look like Elizabeth Hurley...