Word: stood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time, two student groups stood out in the fight for ethnic studies. One was the Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC), a grassroots organization. The other was the group responsible for the 1995 concentration proposal--the Harvard Foundation's Academic Affairs Committee (AAC), which worked toward its goal by operating within the system...
With all the complications, why don't companies cut the crimson tape and use a stand-in for Harvard? The failed sitcom "Boston Common" was set at a fictional university much like Harvard. On another show, crimson shorts stood in for an official Harvard pair...
...referendum result was announced, I stood with independence leader Leandro Isaac on the steps outside the Mahkota Hotel as he hugged journalists and friends. "We will die if we have to," he told me, but even with the streets of Dili empty and thousands of refugees already taking shelter in schools and church compounds, nobody believed the worst-case scenario of Indonesian military brutality would happen. Shortly afterward, Dili descended into total violence. Most foreign journalists fled, but a core group of 30 of us remained, deciding to move to the Turismo Hotel for safety. Almost immediately police told...
...President of Tanzania addressed a Kennedy School crowd just yards away, Army hounds put their noses to the ground and U.S. Secret Service agents stood watch nervously...
...anything for his wealth," while the Times of London editorialized, "It ill-behooves a prince to diminish his people for his own ends." The Sun labeled the Prince "tactless and talentless," which, if true, won't hurt his fortunes in Hollywood, where such attributes have never stood in the way of success...