Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Election Commissioners have found it impossible to go ahead with the printing of ballots, they say, because of the City's competitive bidding statutes. Any contract over $500, they say, must be advertised in local newspapers for two weeks before bidding begins. The bidding then must be kept open for another week, amounting in all to a built-in three-week delay...
...freshman race, won by Harvard. 21-35. Dave Pottetti kept pace with Baker in the win department. beating out his Yardling mate, Tom Spengler, by 53 seconds. The other freshman scorers were Howard Foye, Curt Schweitzer, and Wilbur Edwards...
...charging service industries $3.50 a week per male employee, the controversial S.E.T. was supposed to help channel more labor into tax-subsidized manufacturing jobs. Instead, service industries have added the tax to their prices and kept their help-while manufacturing employment has dwindled. All by itself, the S.E.T. has so far boosted the cost of living by 0.5%, according to Treasury estimates. Though pledged with the advent of North Sea natural gas to push Britain toward a cheap-energy policy, the government this month raised the price of nationalized electricity...
Like Nat Turner, Styron grew up in the Tidewater country, and Turner's story preoccupied him long before he began work on the book. From the time he studied writing at Duke University, through tentative years as a part-time manuscript reader for a New York publisher, Styron kept turning back to Nat. "The melodramatic side attracted me first," he says, "which is why I waited. If I had written it as a younger man, it really would have been gothic...
Yesterday, the Harvard junior varsity booters kept up their winning ways by drubbing Tufts, 5-1, for their second straight victory...