Word: retained
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...another key vote, the council urged the College to retain the present system of assigning houses, which allows students a limited amount of choice through the use of a lottery. The masters have proposed that 25 percent of the spots in some houses be assigned randomly to improve residential diversity...
Pandiscio said that Continental Cable iscurrently installing taps for cable servicethroughout the Harvard campus. Intended primarilyfor educational purposes, four taps will go toRadcliffe and 7 to ten will go to Harvard. Eachtap will provide access to strictlynon-entertainment services, but retain thecapacity to be easily upgraded to carryentertainment. As it stands now, however, none ofthese cable taps is slated to go into aresidential dorm...
...chief legal precedent governing religious displays on public property comes from a 1984 Supreme Court case, Lynch v. Donnelly, which ruled that the city of Pawtucket, R.I. could retain a holiday display containing Christmas symbols because it included sufficient room for secular expression...
Bush announced last Tuesday he would retain Nicholas F. Brady as treasury secretary. He told reporters Friday he was concentrating on naming the rest of his economic team before turning his attention to defense and national security posts...
...resurrecting some variant of the New Deal coalition. The left wing deludes itself to think that the Democrats can nominate a traditional liberal and still appeal to "middle America." The last three elections show that they can't. Similarly, the moderates hope to nominate a Republican clone and still retain the loyalty of minorities and liberals--which is equally impossible...