Word: stood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...today by some of the nation's most nonpartisan and politically unpredictable politicians. On school vouchers Cleveland's White, an African-American Democrat, is sparring with his city's traditionally Democratic teachers' union and the N.A.A.C.P. Goldsmith alienated his party's establishment by firing patronage appointees who stood in the way of his efforts to privatize. Says New York's Giuliani, a Republican who broke with his party by lobbying to save rent regulations: "It's better to keep your constituents happy than to keep a political party happy." So far, it's been a winning strategy: all these mayors...
...whip Art, hands down and forevermore. The end came at the MacWorld Expo in Boston, with what will surely go down as one of our era's iconic images: Gates' tousle-haired grin looming from a giant video screen over the tiny figure of Apple "adviser" Jobs, who stood on the podium watching his strange bedfellow confirm Microsoft's decision to bail out the seminal Silicon Valley start...
CARROLL O'CONNOR Archie Bunker always stood by his unminced words, and now a jury agrees: a drug supplier is a killer...
...promise proved hollow when the next week on Tuesday the mocha man again didn't show; this time the photograph was of a bound and gagged Richard Dreyfus. The producer stood firm, willing to sacrifice even her star to avoid the extra expenditure. So the mocha man came only three times a week, and both Mickey and Richard survived to tell the tale...
...hear about the real-life journalists who played themselves in that movie about mankind's first encounter with extraterrestrials? No, I don't mean the gaggle of CNN anchors and correspondents who appear in Contact. I mean the three prominent newsmen who were featured in The Day the Earth Stood Still, the 1951 classic. In that film's opening moments, the descent of the flying saucer to Earth is breathlessly reported by NBC's H.V. Kaltenborn, radio commentator Elmer Davis and muckraker Drew Pearson. Then as now, the producers believed the presence of journalists would lend an air of authenticity...