Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Editor and publisher Ed Sidey, my brother, will drape a wisp of bunting over the new sign, print a modest centennial edition and later hold a small open house with coffee and cookies and a lot of laughter. Then he and his crew of nine will begin the work of the second century...
...beating from Michael Dukakis; Bush's congressional allies introduced legislation, but with no real hope of passage. When the proposal began to gather surprising momentum, Democratic leaders denounced the idea as a giveaway to Bush's rich friends and thundered about a "defining issue" -- one on which Democrats should hold fast to demonstrate just what the difference is between their party and the Republicans. For Bush to prevail in the House, even assuming total G.O.P. support, he needed no fewer than 42 Democratic defectors...
...combine the capital-gains cut in a monster tax-and-spending bill with so many provisions unacceptable to Bush that he will be forced to veto it. That risks triggering the automatic spending cuts mandated by Gramm-Rudman-Hollings if there is no agreement by Oct. 16 to hold the deficit to $110 billion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. But those cuts could always be rescinded later. And if the budget deficit keeps rising? Don't think about it. The public, the President and Congress all seem sold on now-nowism...
...demonstration, organized by the Cambridge-based Coalition for Palestinian Rights, was staged against Major General Amram Mitzna, whom protesters hold responsible for alleged human rights abuses when he led Israeli troops in the West Bank from May 1987 to June...
...Membership clubs in which the members do not hold club property or otherwise do not have exclusive control over the government and activities of the organization cannot claim to be private," the response states. Because the club property is held by a trust controlled by non-member, graduate trustees and the government of the club consists of 14 graduate members and two present members of the Fly, the document alleges that it cannot claim to be a solely undergraduate organization...