Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Research. Both writers found that Freud's views on sex are not only misbegotten but unrealistic and sadly out of date. One of the reasons that his theories still command popular respect "is that in a world fraught with instability and change, one wants to be able to hold onto a few universals. Freud tried to define an inner core of constants in man." Among them he placed the sex drive, and in a period of rapid change, it can be comforting to know that some things do not change at all. "But a man's anatomy doesn...
...production prompts automakers to cut costs in designing their cars. An innovation that endangered 2,500,000 of the cars in last month's G.M. recall was a cam used to regulate the engine's idling speed. It was designed in plastic, which enabled production engineers to hold down tooling costs. The trouble was that the cam broke off on some vehicles and dropped into the throttle linkage, jamming the accelerator. The company is now substituting a stronger, metal-reinforced...
...goal can mean ball game for a hockey team in the playoffs, and the psychology of the playoffs dictates that when you get it, you hold...
AUSTIN, TEXAS, Mar. 27--The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) have won their battle to hold their spring National Council (NC) meeting in this small city in the Texas hill country...
Originally SDS had signed an agreement with the University of Texas at Austin to hold the conference on campus. However, Frank Erwin, chairman of the University of Texas Board of Regents, banned the meeting from the Texas campus...