Word: holdout
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...holdout in Daniel Flood's bribery case causes a mistrial
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SEVEN SISTER COLLEGE in pastoral western Massachusetts searching for scholar-leader and strong advocate of women's liberal arts education (school was notable holdout against coeducation trend that swept other schools in late '60s). College has 1,864 undergraduates, 21 grad students and 193 faculty; financial situation manageable, w/trim budget ($16,400,000) and healthy endowment ($48,900,000). Major challenge: must continue to attract (and hold) top-quality women to single-sex country campus of ivy-covered brownstone buildings. Salary: negotiable. Large stucco presidential home. An equal opportunity employer. Inquiries to Mount Holyoke...
...that these were merely innocent gifts, but the jurors were not convinced. After their verdict was announced-following an unusually lengthy deliberation of 13 days-jurors said that the vote was initially 9 to 3 against Mandel, became 11 to 1 and stayed there for six days. The lone holdout told newsmen afterward that he believed the parties were innocent as a matter of conscience, if not as a matter of law. The majority's view was expressed by Juror William H. Mann: "I don't care how good friends all of them were...
...deal was crucial because the Palestinians are at the core of a Middle East peace settlement. The continuing holdout of the rejectionists, notably the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, headed by hard-lining George Habash, had muddled the Palestinian position. Although the Israelis still accuse them of it, most Palestinian leaders have long since given up the idea of driving Israel into the sea. Lately, even their hazy notion of a secular state of Palestine embracing Arabs, Jews and Christians has also faded (although Israel's Begin, if he manages to annex the West Bank...