Word: hold
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John Riseman, a Cambridge resident, will present tonight a petition signed by Cambridge residents to the City Council Ordinance Committee to hold "construction permits, demolition permits and new occupancy permits by tax exemption institutes...
There is some truth to Professor Kilson's claim that "for black students to ask the very group they hold responsible for blacks' oppression to finance black solidarity is, to say the least, a most profound and disorienting contradition." But there is another contradiction that we raise, a fundamental one--that Harvard's avowed commitment to social progress stands in stark contrast to its profitable investment practices that have helped maintain white-minority rule and apartheid in South Africa...
...both a scientist and a long-term participant in the program, I have publicly expressed the opinion that the claims are true. I would like to clarify my intellectual understanding of how such effects of the T.M. program are possible, especially since I feel that these developments hold considerable importance for the world. The key to this understanding is "direct experience...
Direct experience is the basis of any science. This is a strong statement, but true in more ways than one. First, if a person is to do science, he must hold the assumption that the phenomena he wishes to study are orderly, behaving according to certain principles or laws. If this could not be assumed, what would be the point of studying anything...
...Carter was to deliver his televised speech on inflation, and as Blumenthal was driven across town, he wondered if the President had any additional changes in mind. For months Blumenthal, the Administration's bridge to the business community and chief inflation fighter had advocated a tougher program to hold down prices and wages. So he had been shocked only one week earlier when Carter had told him he wanted to appoint Robert Strauss-no friend of Blumenthal's-to head the drive. With heavy urging, the Secretary had talked Carter out of the move. He told the President...