Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncertain whether Lance may also hold an executive position with Financial General if it is taken over by BCCI. The Securities and Exchange Commission is still examining Lance's management of the National Bank of Georgia and the Calhoun National Bank; among other things, he and his family ran up large and persistent overdrafts while he was the boss of Calhoun. Lance shrugs off rumors that the SEC is debating whether to bar him at least temporarily from holding a management post with a U.S. bank...
...greater extent than most people are aware, has influenced the course of history and will continue to do so. As Kirk describes, the snows of yesteryear-and the years before that-have been compressed for thousands of years into the hard ice of the glaciers that hold three-quarters of the world's fresh water. The snows of today are falling on our fields and mountains, where, it is hoped, they will provide the world with the waters of tomorrow...
...expense the shah was established in Rome with his wife, Soraya, and told to hold himself ready to return to his country. While in Rome, Soraya received a visit from an American gynecologist who had been summoned from the United States by Kim Roosevelt. She had been trying for some time to produce a son and heir for the shah, and had failed to do so... The gynecologist went into a complicated explanation of the fertility cycle, the waywardness of ovaries, and why it was difficult to make eggs drop at the right moment. She must just keep on trying...
...Image," a course he is teaching this semester on film and electronic music. He feels it is a good teaching tool because it can be used immediately and is erasable. Both Guzzetti and Gardner recognize a student demand for and interest in video, but don't want to hold out false carrots to students by offering a video program which is not adequately funded. "We ought to do it well if we're going to do it," says Gardner...
...place where video seems to be getting the most respect and where a stimulating environment for video work seems to be taking hold most strongly is at M I T, which has five major centers of video activity: the film section of the humanities department, the political sciences department, the Center for Advanced Video, the libraries, and the Center for Advanced Engineering Studies (CAES). CAES has taken the lead in encouraging M I T video: it's two-inch broadcast equipment, used for the continuing education of engineers, attracted two major video grants. Following the grants, a good deal...