Word: held
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Bush's budget was especially noteworthy, the former New Hampshire governor said, because it held the line on taxes while including several initiatives in the areas of education, child care, and other social program areas...
Both teams led the Ivy League in statistical categories. Princeton scored the most goals, with Harvard only three goals behind. Harvard held Ivy teams to the least goals, with Princeton only nine goals ahead...
Premier Li and pro-democracy student leaders held a tense meeting in the Great Hall of the People yesterday that ended in failure after student activist Wu'er Kaixi collapsed as he shouted at the premier...
...Forum. Buried deep in the article was the fact that Jackson, despite the anti-ROTC protest outside the IOP, gave his support to the presence of ROTC units of college campuses. One would think that the fact that Jackson, an ardent liberal and champion of homosexual rights, held such a view would merit greater attention. Come on guys, if he had come out against ROTC, you certainly would have run yet another blaring headline such as "Jackson Rips ROTC" or "Jackson Condemns Homophobic Military...
...negotiations had dragged on all night at Pusan's Dongeui University, but by dawn the 100 students on the seventh floor of the school library still refused to free the five policemen they held hostage. When 20 policemen tried to break into the room, the captors tossed fire bombs at a hallway barricade that they had soaked with kerosene and paint thinner. The raiders were not lucky: six policemen died, and ten were seriously injured...