Word: holdouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peak month of July, while the American lines adamantly held out for $299. Rather than risk a rate war when the current IATA agreement expires Saturday, British Airways and most other European lines, which also wanted low fares, agreed with the Americans on the present arrangement. The only holdout is Greece's Olympic Airways, but it is expected to yield. The "compromise" is likely to be costly to the scheduled airlines as well as to their customers. It seems sure to drive more passengers to the unscheduled airlines that run cut-rate charter flights for as little...
...raised their prime interest rates from 6% to 6%%. Burns sent telegrams demanding figures to support the increase. Within three days, officers of three of the banks-the Bank of New York, Manhattan's Franklin National Bank and Philadelphia's Girard Bank-changed their minds. The one holdout, perhaps temporarily, was Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust...
...himself had "voted different ways." In 15 ballots over six days, the jurors leaned more and more toward conviction (while watching, oddly enough, TV reports on their own deadlock). When they declared themselves stalled at 11 to 1, the judge asked them to try again, and finally the lone holdout gave in. "I finally decided to vote that I was wrong and they were right," said Mrs. Naomi Underwood, 63. But even after voting for a murder conviction, she added: "I am not quite convinced yet. I don't think they had enough evidence...
...several uneasy weeks, the peace cavalcade had been marking time. With an eye to a nervous ally, unpredictable voters and future historians, Richard Nixon had stayed the negotiations, waiting for the election to pass. But now the momentum has resumed. Ending North Viet Nam's holdout against a reopening of the talks on its nine-point plan, Hanoi's negotiator Le Duc Tho arrived in Paris (via Peking and Moscow) aboard an Aeroflot jet, expressing hopes to "rapidly settle" the remaining issues. In Washington, Henry Kissinger gathered his notes and his aides and flew off to join...
Then Blue, who was only 6-10 this season after a lengthy spring holdout, came out of the bullpen to work the final four innings and wrap up the victory...