Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announced her retirement from track and field Saturday in New York. Sports pages across the country ran pictures of the Olympic star trying to hold back the tears, while Al sat by her side...
...more than 1,300 stores after getting several threats. Next day B. Dalton and Barnes & Noble followed suit. "We have never before pulled a book off our shelves," said Leonard Riggio, B. Dalton's chief executive officer. "It is regrettable that a foreign government has been able to hold hostage our most sacred First Amendment principle. Nevertheless, the safety of our employees and patrons must take precedence." Though American writers' groups were at first slow to react to the controversy, the 2,200- member PEN American Center later issued a statement in support of Rushdie...
...Banaszynski says the stress from working on her series took a toll on her physical health. Free-lance writer Joe Levine of New York City was haunted by dreams about AIDS after he completed a long profile of a man who was dying of the disease. Such experiences may hold the key to improving coverage, since reporters who have been affected by seeing death close up may become more sensitive to the needs of the bereaved...
...volumes of a novel written by Martin Anderson Nexo. Lasse finds a position as a lowly stable hand on Stone Farm, which is owned by sexually promiscuous, bourgeois businessman. And though this is not the best of jobs nor the best of living accommodations, Lasse and Pelle try to hold on to their pride and their hope for a better future...
...need for those smaller colleges to keep providing an influx of fresh blood for Harvard is contingent upon one thing: Will the University's already-tenured professors decide to hold on to their jobs or move aside for the next generation...