Word: keeping
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...biggest bonus. Included in the bill were an extra $380 million nuclear carrier for the Navy, $85 million more for the Air Force's Atlas missile, and $309 million for the Army's Nike-Hercules and for Army equipment modernization. The Defense Department was directed to keep the Marine Corps at 200,000 men instead of the budgeted 175,000, keep the National Guard at 400,000 instead of 360,000, the Army Reserve at the level of 300,000 instead...
...system. Meanwhile, argued Gore, the Soviet Union had made propaganda profits out of the conference by advertising the mere preliminaries of a test-ban agreement as substantial Soviet concessions. The U.S., said Gore, should 1) adopt firm, realistic goals for the test-ban conference, 2) set a timetable to keep it from dragging on indefinitely, and 3) force the Soviet negotiators to deal with the tough inspection issues instead of sliding around them...
...government as a nation-binding cultural medium in a country that is strung-out, bilingual and unattractive to private networks. It tries to keep down its subsidy ($60 million this year) by selling commercials in a gentlemanly, low-pressure way. With its money, the CBC turns out a satisfactory and varied diet of Canadian-produced live and film programs, plus an occasional spectacular piped in from the U.S. The network's dilemmas are 1) how to be above politics when the government is paying the bills, and 2) how to apportion program production costs between the government...
...Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds, which lets ticket-buying prospectors keep any find under five carats, a Texas lady unearthed a 3.65-car. rock. She promptly named it the "Faubus Diamond" after the state's Governor Orval E. Faubus, of whom she is "a great admirer." The stone, naturally, was a white diamond...
Spotty pitching and butterfingered fielding still keep the Senators in the second division, but no one takes liberties any longer. Says Yankee Manager Casey Stengel: "You can't fool with those long knockers; it's like you keep lighting matches in a fireworks factory...