Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garner support, Davis pledged to keep NWA in Minnesota, where it has 15,000 employees, and to leave the airline intact. But that hardly reassured the company's workers, who fear that a takeover could bring belt tightening and layoffs. To protect their interests, labor unions at Northwest are opening talks with Davis and other prospective buyers...
...report says the new system "rewards those candidates who have goals other than the nomination." D.N.C. chief Ron Brown has said he does not want to "reopen that can of worms," but by supporting the new rules he risks appearing to be a tool for Jackson. One possible solution: keep the new procedures but move major primaries, like California's, to earlier dates to narrow the field of competitors by March...
...unacceptably high blood-alcohol level nine hours after the incident, and so would have been impaired even under the new rules. Moreover, despite Hazelwood's several arrests for drunken driving and treatment in 1985 for alcohol abuse, Exxon failed to supervise the skipper adequately and allowed him to keep piloting...
...there are deer, which graze on kelp deposited along the beaches, and brown bears, just now coming out of hibernation and ready to scavenge on the shore. How many will die depends in part on whether winds and storms blow the bulk of the spill onto the shore or keep the oil afloat until it can disperse...
HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of characters who live, breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on the margins of Thatcher's England...