Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will do so well in office that even if the Free Democrats should defect after a year or so, he could call new elections and win a substantial margin of seats. In any event, to Brandt it is worth the gamble if it means the Socialists can once again hold the power that has so often eluded them...
...Cornell's new president, Dale R. Corson, picked chiefly for his popularity with students and faculty, left it up to individual professors whether to hold classes. The boycott proposal has already been endorsed by the departments of psychology, chemistry and Romance studies, and moratorium organizers lined up a leading war critic, Republican Senator Charles Goodell of New York, as the speaker at a peace rally...
...since Joe Namath graduated from Alabama to the New York Jets has there been a rookie as rhapsodized as Buffalo's O. J. Simpson. His status allowed him to hold out for six months before signing a four-year contract for more than $200,000-the highest figure received by any rookie since the A.F.L. and N.F.L. merged in 1966. Before he had played a minute of pro football, O.J.'s fame had won him a multiplicity of handsome off-the-field contracts, including a television debut in CBS-TV's Medical Center...
...likes wage and price controls, but we may have to institute them temporarily to halt galloping inflation." Many labor leaders agree, provided that similar controls are put on profits and dividends. At its convention in Atlantic City, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last week called for Government action to hold down the costs of medical care, insurance and housing. The Administration, however, remains dead set against price controls on the grounds that they are unwieldy, unworkable and fail to attack the real causes of inflation...
...building. The Galveston and Charleston exchanges shut down last year. Next to go, most likely, will be Houston's, which sold only 100,000 bales in 1968. There is little left for its score of traders to speculate upon -except the question of how long the exchange will hold...