Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reduced prices. In 1973 the Government was concerned about the increasing price of meat, and imposed ceilings. "Every time we begin to get a fair price for one of our products," says Yokum, "the Government steps in and puts a ceiling on it." To counteract the price controls, farmers kept their cattle off the market, thus building up another surplus that substantially cut beef prices. Now that farmers have finally sold off this surplus, complains Yokum, they are still faced with mounting cattle imports. Whatever they do, it seems to them that they cannot...
Students at the Graduate School of Education kept up their library war this week, battling the school administration over a proposal to lease the third floor of Gutman Library as office space...
...test as the rookie coach of the Radcliffe heavies. But Graves's background in rowing gives her a stable foundation from which to work. She spent three years at the University of Wisconsin as the stroke and captain of the women's team, a team that has kept Radcliffe company in the national top five rankings for the past few years...
Well, it's been a long time now, now ain't it? A long time since we got together and did some talkin'. Yeah, I kinda missed it too, but things just kept comin' up and all, ya know...
Through all the gloom, King George and his band of wealthy discords kept winning. And the fans of York loved them and cheered for them. Even though the players were not true men of York, they fought valiantly for their land. And still the scribes wrote of the evilness of rich King George. But no one stopped to say, "Ah, but George has kept the winning way in fair York...