Word: holdful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started out as a capitalist move, I'll admit that," says Bumper Sticker King Rachelson, "but now it's a way for me to wave the flag." Hy Slater owner of Slater Corp. plans to continue peddling Iran through Christmas His reason: "Khomeini said he'd hold the hostages over the holidays...
More broadly, the left-wing terrorist groups oppose any movement of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico toward statehood. If he is re-elected next year, Governor Carlos Romero Barceló has promised to hold a plebiscite in 1981 to let Puerto Ricans choose between statehood, independence and the status quo. A second cause for protesters is the Navy's determination to keep using Vieques for maneuvers...
...done much as yet to satisfy the 20 million blacks. There has been no change in the white minority government's long-range plan of dividing South Africa into a "constellation" of nominally independent states, in which blacks have the appearance of autonomy but whites continue to hold most of the real power and the wealth...
...outlook is clouded for OPEC itself, especially for the so-called dollar-surplus states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Emirates and Qatar, which together hold more than $90 billion in U.S. dollars and other U.S. financial assets that will continue to slip in value as the cartel's prices climb. These surplus states probably will not go along with any effort to dump the dollar as the currency of the world oil trade, a move that would undermine the value of the greenbacks they already hold. But Iran and Libya are urging OPEC to switch from dollars...
...professions are being taken seriously, they do so as a consequence of the affirmative actions by women who put themselves on the line demanding equal opportunity and the end to sex discrimination. Without these continued efforts to combat nonconscious forms of institutional sexism, many qualified women would not hold their present positions. Political actions by both men and women are encouraging professional institutions to act affirmatively in providing women with equal opportunity. Within this context. I am at Harvard because of affirmative action. Ethel Klein Assistant Professor Department of Government