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Word: holding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colell seems genuinely dedicated to creating a more balanced Faculty. The MSA should cultivate a strong working relationship with him. Mas-Colell, for his part, should establish the credibility of his office early and hold the department chairs' feet to the fire. Just as important, he should push the administration toward a broad commitment to increasing the available pool of minority scholars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Actions Speak Louder | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--President Bush announced yesterday that he will hold a shipboard summit in the Mediterranean with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev December 2 and 3 "to put up our feet and talk" informally prior to a full-blown superpower meeting next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Announces Pre-Summit in December | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...very upset to read a recent report that L.P.'s hold just 10 percent of the American market for recorded music, compared to 52 percent for cassettes and 34 percent for C.D.'s. In all, L.P. sales were down 23 percent since last year...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Longing For L.P.'s | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...best thing about L.P.'s is the packaging. They're the size that a piece of music is meant to be. You can hold an album's cover and read the liner notes and lyrics and grasp the full meaning--the full cosmic earth-shaking force that rock 'n roll at its best can be. I know they put all the same information in C.D.'s and cassettes these days, but it's always in the form of some fold-out thingamagig like the pamphlets they hand out on street corners about safe sex or finding Jesus or joining...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Longing For L.P.'s | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...charm of our suite is of a different nature: it comes from the preponderance of wires and masking tape covering every otherwise-spare surface. We thought that poster gum might look better than masking tape, but it just didn't hold the wire...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Politics of Phony Solutions | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

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