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...solution to the arms race, he urges a spiral with the "conventional arms reduction as the first phase, nuclear arms as the second." If both sides should relinquish their conventional weapons, which are the instruments used in armed subversions, one of the major steps towards a war would be eliminated, he claimed...
...past, the University has reportedly offered as much as $5 million for the yards, but the MTA has consistently refused to relinquish the property...
After the teams changed sides at intermission, Harvard kept the ball in the Dartmouth end for most of the second half. Lee Freeman scored after ten minutes of the period to tie the score, and van-Schalkwyk's winning score came after a Dartmouth player failed to relinquish when tackled, van-Schalkwyk's successful penalty kick meant Dartmouth's first defeat since its lone loss last fall...
...political football." After the CCA required that an exam be taken by all candidates for the headmaster-ship of City schools, Carson alleged the organization's majority refused (for other reasons) to recognize a Mr. Sweeny, a non-local man who topped the exam. "I would relinquish the prerogative that the School Committee has over candidates once they have passed the exam," he emphasized...
...makes little economic sense for U.S. carriers to compete on overseas service. A more sensible approach, the presidents argued in Washington, would be to grant U.S. lines exclusive routes. For service to such im portant gateways as London and Paris, which the second U.S. line might be loath to relinquish, they suggest that the flights -and revenues-should be pooled and the schedules arranged so that the two lines would complement, and not compete with, each other's services...