Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's anti-inflation program, which was unveiled Tuesday, aims to hold wage and price increases to roughly 5.75 percent in 1979, through voluntary wage and price standards coupled with budget restraints and a review of inflationary federal regulations...
...begin to do it justice). The small stage might cramp the dances, but nothing can keep down Frank Burrows' beautiful score, ranging from the delicious "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat" to the exquisite "I'll Know." We think the witty book by Swerling and Burrows can hold its own, too. Guys and Dolls relates two love stories: that of Nathan Detroit, operator of the "oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" and Miss Adelaide, his fiancee of 14 years; and that of big-time gambler Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown, a Salvation Army lass. Based...
North American soccer emphasizes physical fitness but tones down the ball-handling techniques favored in South America. "Here they tend to run a lot more and not hold on to the ball as much. It's rudimentary not' flowing soccer," Keller-Sarmiento said...
...youth in the union wanted to hold out for the pension--only the gray-haired people were clapping after the vote," one worker who asked to remain unidentified said last night...
...Once in a while you get someone whose book from Widener is overdue, and we can't let them leave the library with those. I tell them to take it through the tunnel or hold it for them for a few hours...and once in a while some people get really burned up over this. Generally, though, we try to make as little nuisance of ourselves as possible. Most students want to get on their way, and I want to help them...