Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experts say Bush must balance the desire to encourage allies to take up the burden of their own defense with the need to hold together the Western alliance against a purportedly diminishing threat, experts...
...this way the cynicism projects itself onto the object of the cynicism. The term arises because we do not believe that people hold to liberal views for moral reasons. They hold to them because it is "cool." It is part of the process of stripping the morality from beliefs which once were thought to spring wholly from a moral foundation...
...color of their skin, but by the content of their character." But the larger point was that race does matter, and that it will only cease to matter once we as a nation confront it head on, determine what it means to us and why it continues to hold meaning...
...December, council members voted down a constitutional amendment that would have made the chairperson elected by the student body instead of by the council. The council deferred to students on the issue, voting to hold a binding, campus-wide referendum this spring...
...hold-up was the city's fourth bank robbery in recent weeks, Cambridge Police said, with the latest heist occuring two days earlier at a North Cambridge BayBanks. Police believe the robberies to be unrelated, investigating officer Sgt. Feidelle Centrella said, as witnesses report different notes...