Word: kept
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...major industry. In another sense, though, the move appears to be considerably less than an exercise in altruism. Executives and union leaders seem to be trying to do the minimum the law requires in order to escape shelling out huge sums in back pay to blacks who have been kept from advancement in the past...
Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for Research and Planning said yesterday that dormitory temperatures will be kept at about 60 degrees during vacation...
...July of 1973, however, rumors of a future alliance of workers and students for demonstrations around the end of October started trickling through to observers in the United States. However, Papadopoulos kept the initiative, and the focus of attention on his regime with a new prime minister, Spyros Markezinis, amnesty to all political prisoners, and the promise of elections...
...student locked in the Polytechnic Institute did not have to worry about food. It was given to him for free, since the Athenians poured in supplies of groceries to the students through student-controlled side-doors. The buildings were kept clean, and there were signs reminding students not to damage the facilities. Complete medical care was also available to the students. Thus the students were actually locked in a free environment unheard of in Greece since the coup of April...
...rebellion, a convulsive peasant upheaval which began in central Vietnam in 1771. Peasant armies under rebel generals toppled the ruling dynasties and beat back a Chinese invasion force. And although one of the dynasties--the Nguyen--regained control 30 years later, sporadic peasant rebellions on a smaller scale kept the mandarins from ignoring the peasants...