Word: retained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...republic, which was trying to boost its own influence. In exchange, the reformist camp had to make three concessions. They allowed two hard-liners, Prague party leader Miroslav Stepan and trade-union boss Miroslav Zavadil, to keep their Politburo seats. The five Slovak members of the Politburo also would retain their posts, including Jozef Lenart, despised for his collaboration with the Soviets in the post-invasion era. And no Strougal partisans would replace the ousted Politburo members. Hence the appointment of Karel Urbanek, a relative unknown, to the prime ministry. Presented with a fait accompli, Jakes reluctantly resigned, along with...
Only the most fringe conservative elements on this side of the Atlantic retain a traditional Cold War perspective on Eastern Europe. The rest have moved to reevaluation--of superpower relations, economic opportunities and German unity...
...York Urban League, which has been flooded with complaints about the ad from those who feel it depicts a black man under arrest. Says Vittorio Rava, Benetton's worldwide advertising head: "We thought of the campaign as anti-racist." Benetton's next series of ads will retain the racial-harmony theme but, says Rava, will be "sweeter...
...Murphy be kidding? One would certainly like to think so. But the film that follows is so self-destructively primitive in tone and development that it quickly dismisses the possibility that its superstar proprietor may retain any capacity for self-satire. Or, for that matter, self-control or self- criticism...
...under a successful peace settlement, the independent Palestinian state would retain economic, political and diplomatic ties with Israel, Aruri said...