Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...departments, each sure of its own manifest destiny and naturally inclined to expand without worrying whether total income balances total outgo. It is Rowland Hughes's job to provide the kind of lid for uninhibited government that limited funds impose on a housewife or a businessman-and to hold the lid down with the best...
...Honestly and inevitably, each bureaucrat, convinced of the importance of his own work, tends to maximize his estimates. The advocacy representing the Government's parts is more powerful than that which speaks for the whole. That is one reason why many Government functions continue to grow and others hold their own even in an administration whose top leaders believe that Government should shrink...
...emancipated" Turks, who honor Ataturk for liberating them from the hold of the mullahs, this was democratic heresy. Turkey's press forgot all about the penalties of Menderes' restrictive press...
Roared North Carolina's Tar Heel on Tatum's imminent arrival: "Now that we have this parasitic monster of open professionalism in our midst, let's not hold on to any delusions about it. Let's not think that it will fail to dye the whole fabric of athletics at the university. Let's not think either that it will fail to take its toll on the academic health of the school. Let's not believe that Jim Tatum . . . will play the game any more for the old college try here than...
Doctors have found that-for unknown reasons-radiation victims who vomit almost immediately after exposure are almost sure to die, and those who do not vomit at all are almost certain to survive. This fact led Utah's Pharmacologist Herbert L. Borison to conclude that vomiting may hold the key to the process that causes death from radiation...