Word: hold
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...that a 30-ton bulldozer was hurled 50 feet into the air. This year the Iraqis are importing $1 billion worth of Western goods. In less than a decade, the country's per capita income has jumped from $200 to $1,500. Yet the Iraqis have managed to hold their inflation rate to 8%. They have also held foreign influence over their oil industry to a minimum. Says an Iraqi Petroleum Company official: "We are the only Arab country that can make this claim: we run our oilfields without the help of a single foreigner...
...moderate black leaders: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau. Many black supporters of these leaders have already expressed their displeasure over the amount of power that the whites will retain after a new government takes office following the April elections. The whites will still hold 28 of the 100 seats in Parliament and one-quarter of the Cabinet portfolios, and will retain a strong voice over the judiciary, the civil service, the police and army for at least ten years. Though they will obviously have far less power than in the days when they...
...rates and the high cost of subscription renewals. The new Look hopes to sidestep such difficulties, concentrating on single-copy sales from racks in supermarkets, shopping centers and stationery stores. Look people regard LIFE's revival four months ago as an encouraging icebreaker. If LIFE does well, they hold, Look may too. So far the LIFE signs are good. The Time Inc. monthly magazine just raised its ad guaranteed circulation to 1 million, from...
...funds were drained in the mid-19th century by defaults among borrowers who took the money and ran (illustrating another Franklin maxim: "Opportunity is the great bawd"). Today the trusts hold less than $4 million: $3.2 million in Boston (now loaned to medical students at 2%), and $770,000 in Philadelphia (currently invested in mortgages). Boston Trustee Noel Morss figures that his city's sum will grow only to $5 million by 1991, when it is to be divided between Boston and the state of Massachusetts under the terms of Franklin's will. The suggestion has been made...
Harvard is currently tied with Brown for second place in the Ivy League. To hold on to that slot, the Crimson needs at least a split in this weekend's duels with Penn and Princeton, both on the road...