Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of mountain tribes from Laos or Africa, still only partly emerged from primitive savageness, in the same way. By wanting to shake off guardianship too quickly-assuming that this guardian is honest and not a tyrant-a population risks falling into anarchy. But to want to hold out in spite of all opposition, faced with a native elite reasonably capable of taking the reins of authority, the colonial power runs the risk of terrible explosions and surely her brutal eviction...
...straight-backed chairs, serves them tea to the discreet accompaniment of a string ensemble. Small wonder, therefore, that an undersized, untweedy man wearing blue jeans, a grey fedora and a blue polka-dot handkerchief over the lower part of his face, was emphatically snubbed when he started to hold up the hotel's coffeeshop at pistolpoint last week...
...Twins still work closely with Réaltiés' tightly knit staff of 47, whose pay (average salary: $430 a month) is double the prevailing French journalistic wage. The publishers hold a daily 6 p.m. editorial conference with Editor Max, seldom emerge from their cluttered third-floor office before 9 p.m. Last week the lights were burning later than usual in the massive sandstone building near the Oépra, where Réaltiés and its sister magazines are published. Max and staff were mapping their most challenging assignment yet: a wide-ranging report on life...
...boost Chronicle circulation, Thieriot has spent lavishly for such stunts as "treasure hunts" and "mystery face" contests. But on news-gathering expenses he has kept a tight hold. For example, when the worst forest fires in 30 years broke out in California this fall, Chronicle staffers covered the story by telephone for the first three days. Finally Thieriot okayed the expense of sending one reporter-photographer team 200-odd miles to the Sequoia National Park, but by then the fire was almost out. While he gives editors a free hand at assigning stories, Thieriot makes the decision...
PENSION FUNDS are over the $20 billion mark. In its first detailed survey of the funds, the Securities & Exchange Commission reported that corporate pension funds managed by companies themselves (life insurance firms hold another $9.8 billion) nearly doubled in assets from $6.4 billion in 1951 to $11.2 billion in 1954. While most of the investment is still in corporate bonds, common stockholdings tripled in the last three years, comprise $2.1 billion of assets...