Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thompson, who defied the region's anti-incumbency trend to win reelection by some 600,000 votes. His feisty Democratic opponent, State Comptroller Michael Bakalis, failed to find any effective way of attacking Thompson, who had kept his 1976 election promises to cut spending, balance the state budget and hold down taxes...
...White House even now is making plans to invite the new/old Congress down for orange juice and Coke. The mood may portend that the President and Congress are coming closer, though that should not for a minute hold out bright hopes for an easy time in Government. Democracy remains ornery...
...Incumbent Democrat Kenneth Cole and Republican Donald Moul, director of the National Trotting and Pacing Association, each got exactly 8,551 votes. The tie made it impossible to settle such crucial matters as control of the speaker's job and the appointment of committee chairmen. Should the tie hold after a recount, the candidates will settle the contest by drawing lots from a paper bag. Complained Cole's wife: "People in a democracy are entitled to more than a poker game...
...Western news organizations have so tight a strangle hold on international communications that the Third World simply cannot make itself heard, an imbalance that also purportedly perpetuates Western cultural domination...
...Federal Reserve Board and the central banks of Germany, Switzerland and Japan did in fact buy up enough dollars to hold the price well above the lows established in the pre-Halloween panic. But it was clear that the dollar has not yet developed any upward momentum of its own, and will not until Carter can convince the hard-bitten cynics of the exchange markets that the U.S. is prepared to follow a tough anti-inflation policy as long as may be necessary. Said Walter Seipp, vice president of the Westdeutsche Landesbank in Düsseldorf: "Everything depends on whether...