Word: kept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Playboy magazine, may still require safeguarding, according to the library staff. In the past, Widener workers have complained that people were cutting out pictures from Playboy issues. And although Lamont now subscribes to the magazine as well, a note on the shelf where it is supposed to be kept reads, "This periodical is a frequent victim of theft or damage. For current issues see the reference librarian...
Almost all of the volumes in Lamont and Hilles are kept in the buildings themselves because the undergraduate libraries can simply remove books from their shelves if demand for them wanes, Cole says. "We can take volumes out of the collection because they can be found elsewhere at Harvard," she says...
...Arkansans kept up their wooing even after the bride was won. Once Nucor and Yamato picked Blytheville for the $230 million mill, the town chose eight civic leaders to travel to Japan at public expense to see what more could be done. Shortly after ground was broken for the plant in 1987, tempura and stir- fried dishes were on the menu at the Holiday Inn and townspeople were flocking to seminars on Japanese culture and business...
Except for the top veteran commanders, for whom having a peasant background is a badge of honor, officers are mostly urbanites, educated at one of the army's 25 technical academies. Their pay has not kept up with China's inflationary pace. A major earns about 250 yuan a month (roughly $67), while a hard-working Shanghai taxi driver can clear 2,000 yuan ($537). Such perks as free housing and food allowances, however, compensate somewhat for the income differential. Deng, moreover, has worked to maintain ties with the leadership by insisting on faster promotions based on skill rather than...
Even Soviet journalists proved to be diplomats at heart. Despite persistent questions about Gorbachev's reaction to the protests, a Soviet correspondent evaded the topic and kept insisting that the real story was the renewed friendship between two great countries. In private, however, Gorbachev could not control his curiosity. Late Monday evening he summoned Soviet journalists to his country's embassy and peppered them with questions about what was happening in the streets...