Word: holding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realize that Begin and Sadat hold the spotlight with their soft-shoe routine, but I would like you to register my vote for the young, attractive and miraculous Premier of Spain-Don Adolfo...
Thieu Bui was better equipped to be assimilated into middle-class American life than most of the 156,000 Vietnamese who are trying to take hold here. He got excellent medical training in Saigon. In 1967-68 he also served as a resident at a West Virginia medical center, where he passed the crucial foreign medical graduates exam...
Fortunately, the discrimination faced by American women is not in any way analagous to the campaign of terror conducted by the South African government. Women in this nation are not systematically tortured, beaten, shot, nor deprived of the right to trial, vote, work, hold public office, marry out of their race, or live in the region of their choice...
...will be decisive factors in reducing inflation, are moving ahead relatively smoothly. In next year's budget, the White House is shooting for expenditures of about $530 billion vs. $492 billion this year, an increase of 7.7%, which is below the current inflation rate. To achieve that and hold the deficit to less than $30 billion will require substantial cutting in the growth of the budget; the President seems determined to do this. There are signs that he may even fudge on his promise to NATO to increase U.S. defense spending by 3% in real terms next year...
Still, the industry's hold on its customers is secure, and one has only to prowl the stores to find out why. At Bloomingdale's in Manhattan last week, a blue-jeaned young woman sat at the counter being made up by a saleswoman while her husband watched eagerly. She hesitated at first when the bill for her face makeup?eye shadow, foundation, mascara, liners, lip pencils?came to $42. But she gave in and paid when her husband murmured, "You really look great, honey." Then he turned to the salesgirl and asked, "Isn't she pretty...