Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the years, this system has shown an amazing durability, if not too much dynamism. Nine councilors get elected-almost always four from the "good government" Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and five "independents." Together they apportion the City's bounty to their respective constituents try to keep the tax rate as low as possible, and sometimes, as from 1965 to 1968, break up in bitter fights over the choice of a city manager...
Kerkorian believes that MGM can go nowhere but up. His operating policy for the company: "Clear out the nonproductive items and keep the productive ones, and you have a successful business." MGM began last year to sell off its real estate holdings, which are scattered from Culver City, Calif., to London. In order to realize some quick profits, Kerkorian is likely to dispose of more...
...prefabricated apartments are so cramped and shoddy that most would be unrentable to middle-class Americans. George Romney, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, calculates that new housing in the past four years has fallen more than 1,000,000 dwellings shy of the amount needed to keep up with population growth and losses from fires, storms and bulldozers...
...harriers are woefully lacking in depth, and on two occasions when Fields won meets, his teammates were unable to supply enough strength to keep Yale from losing. The Bulldogs have dropped five-of-six meets, and the feeling at Now Haven is that it will be an upset if Yale can defeat Princeton, much less Harvard...
...ATLA publishes three periodicals, conducts nationwide seminars, and provides library services to keep lawyers in touch with legal developments...