Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Core Curriculum marks its 10th year, professors of Core courses hold a colloquium on paper extensions, lotteries and pushy brown-nosers who frequent office hours--and decide that these traits should be officially incorporated into the Core's philosophy. An 11th division called "Modes of Inquiry" is created to foster these qualities in Harvard academic life...
Republicans running for legislative seats across the state handed out literature coordinated by the party with similar broad themes tailored for local audiences. But Flaherty noted that the Democrats maintained their iron hold on the state Legislature, and he predicted no slippage in the 1990 statewide election...
Even though an increased tax may be healthy policy in the long run, most U.S. motorists see it as bitter medicine. Americans hold this view even though they pay an average of only 92.6 cents per gal., including all taxes, which is one of the lowest levels in the world -- and below 1950 prices after inflation is deducted. In a TIME survey conducted last week by the opinion firm Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, nearly three-quarters of those polled said they opposed any tax boost to reduce the budget deficit. A nearly equal number acknowledged, however, that an increase seemed likely...
...these to prove that he could make the White House work again. Was he serious about fighting those nasty special interests? He broke the strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers' Association and obliterated the union. Would he tame the Kremlin? He put Moscow's bargaining feelers on hold while pumping up the Pentagon budget to gargantuan proportions. Though the process often seemed serendipitous, depending heavily on events in Moscow, Reagan eventually presided over a microwave warming of relations with the Soviet Union. No one can be sure how genuine or durable the thaw will be, but it has helped...
...send President Corazon Aquino. Indonesia will send President Suharto. Most of Japan's modern-day trading partners seem to share the magnanimity -- and pragmatism -- of incoming U.S. President George Bush. While a Navy bomber pilot, he was shot down over the Pacific by Japanese gunners, but he professes to hold no grudge. Bush was among the first Western leaders to announce he will attend Hirohito's funeral. To those who objected, Bush explained, "What I'm symbolizing is not the past, but the present and future, by going there." The Japanese, who have chronicled the debates abroad, welcomed the American...