Word: stood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartboard has stood by and let many an Undergraduate Council debate rage this week, much to our own amusement. Yet in the course of vapid jousting over perennial "pressing student concerns," we have become increasingly alarmed at another aspect of the elections. Sadly, it was not the content of these debates that has led us to speak out, nor a particular allegiance to any of the candidates...
...campus, we have stood by as the language of debate has changed, and Dartboard is not so dewy-eyed to be disappointed by mere wishy-washy non-committal phrases like "forging community" and "driving values." Such, it seems, is the fate of popular election rhetoric. No, Dartboard is not complaining about that this time. This time it's about something that's a little like religion, a little like meditation and a little like compassion...
...credit, Lt. Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas canceled his scheduled speech in 1994 for the CCC when he learned who else was speaking and when he realized what the organization stood for. He said "he would never knowingly share the platform with someone affiliated with white supremacist and anti-Semitic organizations" because he "live[s] by the maxim, 'Avoid the very appearance of evil...
...rather than offering an opening statement, Robinson said simply "The Undergraduate Council" and then stood silently at the podium as her minute inched by, ending her speech with "dawn" after time was called...
...boldly took IBM--and the world--into the computer age, and in the process developed a company whose awesome sales and service savvy and dark-suited culture stood for everything good and bad about corporate America. No wonder the Justice Department sought (unsuccessfully) to break...