to stand at present

Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.

Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.

She had not been one of those Iranians who viewed America as the Promised Land. To her and her university friends, the U.S. was the great disappointer—the democracy that had, to their mystification, worked to shore up the monarchy back when the Shah was in trouble.