Word: hold
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...among blacks. The proportion of Puerto Ricans on welfare is 34%, vs. 32% for blacks. Among Puerto Ricans over 16 years old, only 6% have completed any job training; the rate for blacks is twice as high. With 14% of New York City's population, Puerto Ricans hold only 3.1% of police department jobs and 1.3% of those in the fire department...
...volatile issue of the West Bank and Gaza Strip will be played down in order not to hold up the treaty. Nonetheless, the Egyptian team will try to get as much linkage as possible between its Sinai deal and the future status of these occupied territories. The Egyptians expect the Israelis to make some unilateral gestures on the West Bank to parallel the Sinai talks. For one thing, they want the Israelis to dismantle their military government at about the time that an Israeli-Egyptian peace pact is signed. Another gesture could be the release of a sizable number...
...that dangerous dozen is Maine's proposed $559 million Dickey Lincoln Dam, which environmentalists contend threatens the Furbish lousewort, a weed protected under the law.) In addition, the Interior Department may add 1,000 plants and 100 animals to its endangered species list, a move that could eventually hold up even more construction. Environmentally concerned legislators in the House last week were scrambling to gain support for a compromise funding bill already passed by the Senate. The measure would create a seven-member committee, composed mostly of federal officials, to rule on possible exceptions to the Endangered Species...
...well below the 5.3% average for all U.S. industry. They must earn at least as much next year as they will in 1978 in order to finance the new planes that they will need in the 1980s. Increasing fares, the most obvious answer, could prove politically difficult. So, to hold their 1979 earnings up, the airlines must attract as many as 30 million new passengers next year, on top of the 280 million (a 40 million annual gain) they are expected to carry in 1978. Thus the lines have a problem: while they must avoid further strains on their hard...
...they stopped publishing. The pact allows the Post to go to press immediately, and requires Murdoch by and large to go along with whatever settlement terms the unions can win later from the Times and the News. In exchange, Murdoch gained an important concession from the pressmen that will hold for the Post regardless of what the two other papers agree to. Under that provision, Murdoch need guarantee his pressmen only five straight-time shifts a week, a deal that he estimates could save up to $ 1 million a year in overtime. The number of shifts is central...