Word: holding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defuse the issue by emphasizing its complexity. In fact, the contradictions are crystal-clear. Manufacturers Hanover's policy is to make, renew and extend loans to the South African government. Harvard has promised to divest itself of bonds in banks that have such a policy. Yet Harvard continues to hold $11 million in Manufacturers Hanover bonds...
That's exactly what she did, catching Jennings midway up the side of the gorge and burning past her as they approached the finishing stretch. Sullivan also made up ground, but Jennings managed to hold her off to preserve second, seven full seconds behind Newnham's course record...
...abolish Saturday check-out except for emergencies; and program hotel elevators on the Sabbath so that Jewish users will not have to push floor buttons. Zolty also requested the Hilton to eliminate Christmas and New Year's parties and decorations. "In a Jewish hotel, one doesn't hold Christmas parties or any parties for other faiths," he said. "How would it be if Jews went to the Vatican to hold their celebrations? What would Christians think...
...merely to float while seven others "fly" to me, the first gripping my wrists, the next two docking between us, breaking our grip and seizing their own. The others come into the circle, one by one, until we are a round, eight-man "star," falling at 120 m.p.h. We hold this for 5 sec., then the eight others fly in, attempting to dock with their hands gripping our ankles, turning the star into a "snowflake." I look about and cannot help grinning at the wonder of it: all of us up here hurtling through the sky together. Jonathan Livingston Seagull...
...competition, known as the "turkey meet" because it used to occur around Thanksgiving, is perhaps the most popular of the 120 formal contests held every year in the U.S. The meet started in 1969 when parachuting was just beginning to take hold in this country, and it has managed to maintain a special appeal while jumping has become a highly organized international sport, one now dominated by Americans. Part of the lure of the meet is simply the Florida weather: only the hardest of the hard core like to jump in northern climes when winter is coming...