Word: held
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier yesterday, Gorbachev stopped in Ireland and held a "shamrock and sickle summit" with Prime Minister Charles Haughey, who suggested the next U.S.-Soviet summit be held in Ireland...
Sweeter because while Harvard jumped out to a 3-0 lead on a power-play tally by Captain Lane MacDonald at the 10:24 mark of the second period, the Crimson defense held the Spartans shotless for the period's first 13 minutes...
There were other unconfirmed reports from sources that Avril and Col. Acedius Saint-Louis, the interior and defense minister, were being held at the Leopard Corps barracks in suburban Port-au-Prince...
...case evolved from the testimony of Boesky, who fingered West Coast broker Boyd Jefferies. The Government alleges that GAF used Jefferies as a participant in a scheme to manipulate the price of shares in Union Carbide. Prosecutors claim that GAF, which held a large block of Carbide stock as the result of an unsuccessful bid to take over the company, tried to run up the price of the shares before selling them. After many days of technical presentations about stock trading, the jury may have become numbed by it all. Even so, federal prosecutors vowed to try the case again...
...election, while fairer than some previous exercises, was nonetheless seriously flawed. Election-related violence took the lives of at least 30 civilians, including three journalists, two of them killed by army troops. Guerrilla forces effectively paralyzed public transportation and staged several attacks in outlying towns. The vote was thus held down not only by sympathy with the F.M.L.N. but also by fear...