Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartment buildings are still there, and some small businesses still hold on to their leases, competing with the video and furniture stores for space. But while the old and the new seem to be peacefully coexisting, the neighborhood itself has taken on a different flavor, area business owners and community activists...
...also hold a special place in my heart for the Harvard housing system. Take my word as someone who has experienced house life--each house is truly a microcosm of this grand cerebral melting pot we call Harvard. The houses offer students a rich store of perks--ranging from unparalleled advising resources to a bevy of senior common room professors always accessible and eager to engage residents in intellectual discourse...
Gray: Hey, you know Johnny, you should try to hold that drinking down. I know how much drinking means to you--how it helps you relax around the women and all--but I'm not so sure you should take the risk while the Senate's still considering your nomination. I hear Sam Nunn is a real tight-ass. From the way he's talking, you'd think he never took a drink in his life...
...sole possession of Jeff's Preservation Specialties, Inc., the company he operates out of a bare room in an industrial mall in Pinellas Park, Fla. The hulking chamber, with a glass window at one end, resembles those gadgets in science fiction movies that hold spacemen in a state of suspended animation while they hurtle toward distant galaxies light-years from earth. The chamber doesn't work that way, however. What it does is draw the moisture from dead organisms until they are mummified in a perfectly preserved state...
...they don't hit it off, we're all in the soup," warned Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japan's former Prime Minister, as his successor prepared to meet President Bush last week. But there was little cause for worry. When Noboru Takeshita became the first foreign leader to hold a face-to-face meeting with the new President, the 2 1/2-hour session was as mild as Washington's 60 degrees F February weather. Gone were the threats of a trade war. Absent too was much of the anger that provided a harsh overtone for recent U.S.-Japanese summits. In their place...