Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that time, Cambridge was governed by 13 councillors, which like many contemporary Eastern city governments kept power and ran their cities by a system of patronage, offering jobs and benefits to supporters. Under the Littauer Center's proposed Plan E, the number of councillors would be cut to nine, and a city manager would be named by the council to handle administrative duties--including employee hiring and benefit dispensation...
...Dean A.C. Hanford requested that students refrain from additional shenanigans, and students, still chuckling at the whole affair, kept out of further trouble with the councillors...
Harvard has also acquired 65 wheelchairs for the four days of reunions and other events, says Purchasing Office buyer Robert L. Dwyer. He says several will be kept in Harvard Yard for emergencies, while the rest will be placed around campus...
...administration's anti-union campaign. We knew we were meeting with one of the Big Boys of the Corporate World, so we tried to be polite and respectable. I removed my earring and even wore a jacket and tie. We sat up straight, avoided rhetoric, and kept our feet off the coffee table...
...emit that almost audible hum of ambition that can be heard at the upper reaches of political power. But no, not a sound. It took considerable pushing and prodding to get him to enter politics at all. And when he did jump ( in, it was "accidents," he insists, that kept advancing his career. "The important thing," he says, "is to be prepared when an opportunity comes your...