Word: held
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Princeton held a one-length lead over Yale with 400 meters to go, but the Elis surged and the two boats crossed the finish line together, with the Tigers being ruled the winner after the judges reviewed the videotapes of the race. Cornell, George town, Santa Barbara and Cal-Berkeley rounded out the field...
Razo, who is being held in an Orange County jail, pleaded not guilty to all charges. He had previously confessed to police that he had committed all ten robberies, but Barnett maintained that the confessions were the result of a state of "PCP psychosis," he said...
...Justices ruled 6 to 3 that affirmative-action programs may be approved only after the strictest judicial scrutiny. The pattern became clearer two weeks ago when, by the now familiar 5-to-4 vote, the court gave large companies accused of discrimination a crucial procedural win. The Justices held that, contrary to previous doctrine, it is employees who must prove that imbalances in the racial makeup of their employer's work force result from practices that have no valid business justification. That ruling provoked a biting dissent from Justice Harry Blackmun: "One wonders whether the majority still believes that race...
...object needed to serve a particular purpose. For a recent table, he used an 8-ft. cross section of redwood root. The wild energy of the wood, complete with cracks and holes, strains outward, as if it were trying to dissolve back into the ground. But the wood is held together in places with 4-in.-wide butterfly-shaped splints of walnut, Nakashima's signature method of prompting the ancient to new service...
...become the target of inquiry by two congressional committees into charges of influence peddling. The Justice Department has launched a nationwide probe into the possible theft of as much as $100 million in HUD funds. Says Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos of California, chairman of a House panel that has held hearings on the agency's problems: "The scandal at HUD seems to have no end. It is the most mismanaged department in memory...