Word: holding
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Increasing the size of the faculty could hold the key to several other initiatives underway in University Hall, administrators...
...plan allows employees at restaurants and stores who suspect they have been given a fake I.D. to confiscate it and notify the Registry. Under the plan, the Registry will then hold a hearing to determine if the I.D. is actually false, and decide on a penalty...
...ruling Politburo, facing mounting unrest at home, was scheduled to hold its regular weekly meeting late yesterday amid speculation it could determine the political future of hard-line leader Erich Honecker...
...reverence. But for the past 13 centuries the same trapezoidal tract has also been Islam's holiest site after Mecca and Medina: its Al Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock honor the spot whence the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to the seventh heaven. Christians too hold in awe this place where Jesus walked. Now a controversy has arisen over whether, and when, a new Jewish Temple should be built...
...insurers taking care of another 40%. The remaining 20% falls in the "self pay" -- often meaning "no pay" -- category. The most important government program, Medicaid, is available only to impoverished patients. As a result, those infected with the AIDS virus frequently must "spend down" into poverty, demonstrating that they hold assets of less than $2,000. This low level of federal coverage portends future problems, since the number of people with AIDS continues to rise. "Federal health planners have been acting as if AIDS will go away," says Congressman Henry Waxman of California...