Possible Clues:

• Currently, a flop for one society
• Teachers' organisation transformed? Is the way things stand!
• The way things stand, a strike's not new
• "The way things stand ..."
• "The way things are ..."
• The way things are, wine's flooding Italy
• ". . . on Earth ___ in Heaven"
• "Given the circumstances ..."
• I carried in sparkling wines in this case
• The way things are when one's cramming Italian