Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resolution calls for the "development of a mechanism to hold departments accountable for their failure to recruit minority and women faculty applicants." No specific mechanism is suggested...
...victory extended Harvard's winning streak against the Big Red (5-2 overall, 4-2 ECAC, 1-1 Ivy League) to seven games and increased its hold of first place in the ECAC. Harvard (9-0, 8-0, 6-0) stands alone in the league standings, two games ahead of St. Lawrence...
American business is built on a rock of lawfulness and trust between companies and those who hold a stake in them. But when avarice grows out of proportion, cracks start to appear in the foundation. "Greed can be good," says M.I.T.'s Modigliani, when it spurs profitable and productive growth. "But it can also be bad," he warns, when it outpaces all other considerations...
...first to be wished a good day." And then there is "Cyril," which sets forth its subject's illustrious life, including his attempt to create a written form for Slavic: "He started with rounded letters, but the Slavonic language was so wild that the ink could not hold it, and so he made a second alphabet of barred letters and caged the unruly language in them like a bird...
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Allon Liel said he was not aware of any written Soviet request for extradition, but he added, "I don't see any reason why we would want to hold them...