Word: stood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff shows its own pettiness by questioning the president's motives in this situation. This agreement was never a foregone conclusion, and the president stood to suffer a major embarrassment if the talks failed, as they almost did on several occassions. President Clinton was under no obligation to enter these negotiations, and will derive little domestic political gain from their success...
Dartmouth's move recycles ideas used in aid reforms at Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT and finally Harvard last month. Princeton set off the chain of reforms with a bold move to attract middle income students--breaking up a system of tacit Ivy cooperation that had stood for 30 years...
This past Tuesday, an open meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences played host to both nobility and farce. In an inspiring display of courage, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 stood before the full body of his colleagues and dared attack that sacred cow of the modern academy, known affectionately as multiculturalism, and known accurately as bunk...
Still, I'm told there was a time when academia stood apart from popular currents and evaluated them from a critical perspective. It is a great loss to today's undergraduates that our teachers are no longer critics but, instead, are the most zealous flag-bearers of prevailing social trends...
TOKYO: At Alcoholics Anonymous, they call this bottoming out. On a single day, Japan's three biggest brokerage houses stood up and recounted the financial nightmare of the past six months. The numbers are staggering -- the biggest firm, Nomura Securities, lost $1.76 billion and plans to lay off a fifth of its employees -- and of course it can always get worse. But optimists hope that a painful lesson has been learned. This might be where the healing starts...