But does it stand to reason?

Sun Jul 30 16:07:08 UTC 2006

On Jul 29, 2006, at 10:20 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> Frrom Saturday's NYT:
>
> The 'baby boomers' of today have an overall level of health far higher
> than their parents did in middle age, and _reason stands_ that their
> children will have even better health to look forward to.

i can't find this in an on-line search for "reason stands" in the NYT
in the past week.  can you supply the exact reference?

googling on <"reason stands that"> pulls up some plausible-looking
examples from other sources, though.

arnold

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