Word: holdings
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China's despotic Emperor Ch'in Shih Huang-ti (221-206 B.C.) ordered up a wall in 214 B.C. to keep out fierce barbarian invaders. The Roman Emperor Hadrian completed one in northern England in A.D. 136 to hold the marauding Picts at bay. Now the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has decided to build its own border monument along sections of the boundary between Mexico and California and between Mexico and Texas. The invading foe: an estimated 1 million Mexicans who cross illegally into the U.S. each year...
Wary of charges by Arab rejectionists that they had betrayed the common cause, the Egyptians were determined to hold Israel to its promise of establishing Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza, which could lead to an Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty within five years. Thus, they proposed last week that the evolution toward normal diplomatic relations between Israel and Egypt should also take place over a five-year period. Specifically, they sought to insert a clause in the draft treaty calling for a review of the situation in five years. The Israelis spurned this idea, calling it a "nasty...
Rarely, if ever, has a Canadian leader received such a repudiation outside of a general election. The Liberals, who had held seven of the seats that were speckled across seven of the country's ten provinces, managed to hold only two-both in the party's French-speaking redoubt of Quebec. Trudeau's party was completely wiped out in seven by-elections in English-speaking Ontario, where the next general election must be won. The country's chief opposition party, the Conservatives, won ten seats-including all but one of the Ontario constituencies. The Liberals...
What is wrong is the bankable-star problem. This means that banks will not back a big film unless the star is someone even a banker has heard of. Thus, when you want to cast a black version of The Wizard of Oz, you do not hold an audition for beautiful teen-age black girls who can sing like crazy, though the possibilities of such an audition stagger the imagination. You sign up Diana Ross, who is beautiful, sings Like crazy, and is known to bankers from a career dating back to the early '60s, when...
...question most people are asking is whether it is worthwhile to hold fasts when people sign up for them and go out to Elsie's to eat," Thorne said...