Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both felt they had to draft immediate statements rebutting the scary implications of a story in the Washington Post. Under a headline that sprawled across six columns of the front page, the Post reported that Citibank and Chase had landed on a list kept by the Comptroller of the Currency, a chief U.S. banking regulator, of "problem" banks. Reason: they held a relatively large volume of questionable loans in relation to the capital they had on hand to cushion potential losses. That merited a closer-than-normal watch over their operations by regulators...
...political muscle." To get it, he ordered that a covert fund be set up. In 1960 the Bahamas Exploration Co. Ltd. in Nassau was transformed from an insignificant subsidiary into a firm that could "launder" Gulfs money and pass it along to politicians. Whiteford insisted that the fund be kept secret from the Mellon family and from the executives that he called the "Boy Scouts"-E.D. Brockett and Bob R. Dorsey. To the directors at last week's meeting, the key question was whether Boy Scout Dorsey had had knowledge of the fund...
...20th century, has been so lofty in spirit as never to have shared this fantasy?" replies Howe. "But who, born a Jew in the 20th century, has been so deluded as to stay with this fantasy for more than a few moments?" Such sobering interrogations have always kept the American Jew leaping from the melting pot into the fire. R.Z. Sheppard
...first attested reading period in Western literature occurs in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus, is kept on Kalypso's island in preparation for his upcoming examination. This is one of the more idyllic reading periods in literature. We can see that it was not always cold and heartless during reading period in the following passage, where Hermes comes to tell Kalypso it's time for Odysseus's exam period to begin...
...agostino kept Harvard's hopes alive in the 190 lb. class by building a 7-0 lead and then holding on for a 7-6 victory. Trailing by only three points going into the final match, a Crimson victory would have still been possible were it not for Minutemen behemoth Dennis Fenton...