Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stronger, a medical examiner may be pressured to say a woman was raped before she was murdered, though the evidence is equivocal. Or the M.E. may be pushed to attribute the death of a person in police custody to the victim's use of cocaine rather than a choke hold applied by officers. M.E.s may deny being subjected to such nudging, but they agree that their independence must be guarded...
...Administration insists it is not offering to trade for the hostages in violation of U.S. policy, the trap that Ronald Reagan fell into. "We can offer ((the Iranians)) better opportunities with the West, but we're not going to hold out anything specific," said a White House official...
...Administration plan would cut capital-gains taxes to 15% but would also phase in a rule requiring investors to hold an asset for three years in order to qualify for this rate. The House measure, proposed by Georgia Democrat Ed Jenkins, would cut capital-gains taxes to 20% on investments held at least a year. But the cut would be short-lived; in two years the rate would return to 28% with indexing for inflation. Investors would be sure to roll over their assets and produce a quick windfall for the Treasury -- at the expense of future tax collections. House...
...fisherman is lucky, the passion becomes manageable, second nature, like tying knots in the dark or reading a deep green pool by an undercut bank and knowing where the trout are holding and which fly to use. But having gone through the novitiate, fly-fishermen are never the same again. They scan rivers and lakes, seeing water but imagining the life underneath. They concentrate for hours, zenlike, watching thunderheads build and billow above, gazing at streams running over moss-covered rocks, searching for the sight of a trout, that near perfect fish, as it fins and darts, drifts and feeds...
...fish tires, you draw it close to your leg, remove the hook and hold the trout for a moment, gauging its length before giving it back to the stream. That too is part of the sport. When waters were cleaner and trout spawned nearly everywhere, killing and eating the fish were a more common reward for the catch. But a generation raised on conservation ethics is releasing fish to reproduce and perhaps be caught again. Our atavistic selves relish the hunt, but our better natures understand the need to protect what we cherish. Fly-fishing lets us do both...