Word: holding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left town, the land changed from low foothill country of Colorado. Watered hillocks gave way to the terrifying, barren and twisted land that sees less than seven inches of rain a year. The road, no longer flanked by fences and farms, cannot remain a symbol of man's secure hold on his own turf. It seems instead an imposition, almost an irrelevance. As I passed the turnoff to Salt Lake other motorists evaporated. I was left all alone on a superhighway, seeing five cars in half an hour...
...this time the network control couldn't reestablish itself. It may not have been the American Dream, but what I had seen was definitely the genuine article. When I left the car in the desert, the moving picture screen lost its hold over me. Even the sight of Reno couldn't stifle my lately restored ability to see what passes for the real world...
...assets, are located in the foreign branches and subsidiaries of U.S. banks. The funds are not under the jurisdiction of Washington at all, but of the banks' host countries. The key country is Britain, the major center for the Eurodollar market; banks in Paris, Frankfurt and Geneva also hold large Eurodollar deposits that technically lie outside U.S. jurisdiction...
...local, argued, "We need an educational program to get workers more politically involved beyond issues of the bargaining table." A number of Agenda-affiliated groups plan a public education campaign for fighting corporate power centered on April 17's "Big Business Day." At Harvard, students from New England will hold a three-day conference the same weekend...
...environment chief James Tozzi admits that the fledgling EPA program will remain a low priority and that "there'll be no big changes" in the hazardous waste budget until "all the various options are weighed." EPA official Hugh Kaufman observes, "The president wants to hold down the budget. It doesn't come cheap, saving people's lives...