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Esme stands in for the continued vitality of the stage.
It stands to reason that if test results are correlated with income or other measures of social background, that students who do better than "expected" on the basis of their socio-economic background, may be stronger than their test results indicate.
In front of the keep is Portugal’s most curious pelourinho, which stands on top of a primitive granite boar (porca), carved in prehistoric times.
The newest entrant in this contest of symbols is Thomas L. Friedman, the foreign affairs columnist of the New York Times , who offers a somewhat sunnier pair in his new book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree . The Lexus, a luxury car made mostly by robots in a state-of-the-art Japanese factory, stands for progress--"all the anonymous, transnational, homogenizing, standardizing market forces and technologies that make up today's globalizing economic system," as he puts it.
In September 1635, d’Esnambuc led a party to Martinique and constructed Fort Saint-Pierre, where a town of that name stands today.