Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Before the crackdown, our major difficulty was in sending information back, sending money back, really trying to keep communication open," says Luo. But in recent weeks, he adds, police have been keeping a close watch on every telephone and fax machine...
...long as they want to modernize the country, they can't just keep buying technology," he says. "They need the expertise...
...wrote a collective statement, "We Can Do Better," presenting our analysis of the contract summary and urging voters to demand at least two more weeks to insure proper time to study and discuss the contract. Barring that, we urged a "No" vote as the only way to keep discussion of the contract going. The statement was completed by the evening of June 27, and distribution by hand to union members was begun at once...
Koito officials became even more suspicious of a scheme against them when they saw disruptive characters known as sokaiya at the meeting. These stockholders, who typically have links to gangsters, prey on companies by charging protection money to keep quiet at such meetings or hector other stockholders. The sokaiya seemed to take Pickens' side in their outbursts, but they did not vote in his favor...
...takes Naipaul about a year to compose a book. "I'm with it all the time, anxious to get to the end," he says with a hint of dread. "When I'm finished, I do nothing. It takes a week before I even begin to feel tired." To keep in shape, he performs a daily exercise taught to him years ago by a family pundit in Trinidad. It is a difficult yoga bend that leaves the writer arched backward with his head on the floor...