Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...M.P.L.A. announced last week that it would pursue a policy of nonalignment and deny military bases to any foreign power. At the 15th anniversary celebration of its revolt against Portuguese colonial rule last week, Luanda circumspectly kept Cuban troops and Soviet advisers out of sight. Intelligence sources, meanwhile, said that the Cuban troop airlift has been halted for two weeks. Some observers speculated that a secret quid pro quo had been worked out in exchange for the South African withdrawal...
...directed to identify herself in the midst of the act." Patty, his argument ran, was a normal, marriage-bound college coed of 19 when she was kidnaped; her fragile teen-age will was broken during her first six to nine weeks with the S.L.A., during which she was kept in a closet and sexually abused by S.L.A...
...Bailey was indicted too. The evidence against Bailey was thin, but he had to abandon virtually everything else and spend $350,000 and two years fighting the charges, which were eventually dropped after an eight-month trial in Florida ended in a hung jury in 1974. Although Associate Johnson kept the Boston office open, the Bailey firm all but withered away; new business fell by 80%, and young associates left to find other jobs...
Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., a private forecasting firm, observes that the budget assumes the recovery will be kept going in 1977 by a bigger and faster surge in private demand, and particularly in business spending for new plant and equipment, than he believes will occur. David Grove, a nonpartisan vice president of IBM, agrees: "For the past two or three years, the economic and political situation has been so unstable that it is very hard for business firms to determine what degree of risk is prudent in any investment project." If the Ford budget is adopted...
Steve Herrell acknowledged that he uses a mix--manufactured by Hood's--but he hastened to explain: "This is not a powder, it's a fresh liquid, delivered four times a week and kept under refrigeration...