Word: withstood
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...World Trade Center as he and his colleagues filed down the stairs after hearing a "huge blast" and seeing glass and debris raining down from above. "It's hard to know what was in the pilot's mind, but I know what we were thinking." The reinforced cement building withstood the impact and was never at risk of collapsing. Also, several of the upper floors were being renovated, which likely prevented further casualties. That was welcome news. The bad news is that, up there somewhere, the other shoe is still waiting to drop...
...brave students bit the bullet and withstood the subzero temperatures in favor of personal hygiene...
...still rosy - the recent dropoff in productivity gains and the technological investments that fuel them are "only a pause? At some point, inventory liquidation will come to an end, and its termination will spur production and incomes." And finally, "It is notable how well the U.S. economy has withstood the many negative forces weighing on it?The economy is still standing...
...direct opposition to the Columbia game, it was Harvard that went up on Cornell in the second half, and then withstood a comeback by the Big Red before closing the deal...
Roberts knows rough-and-tumble politics well, fighting for a district made up mostly of elderly and Jewish voters, residents of the Century Village retirement community. A die-hard Dem, she has served 14 years on the Republican-dominated county commission. She has withstood criticism before, like the time she cast a vote to break a tie, allowing a zoning change that favored her dentist son. She first chose to run for public office as a young mother after reading that an incumbent city commissioner had no opponent. Kids in tow, she went down and filed to run against...