Word: retained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students want this? No. And yet members of the council suffer under the mass delusion that students like having an impotent council to make jokes about. I've never heard anyone argue so adamantly that the council must retain a "purely social" (read: impotent) role than a council member...
...those investments were larger -- or more stunning -- than the venture announced last week by two renowned names in the world tire industry: Tokyo's Bridgestone and Chicago's Firestone. As part of a $1.25 billion deal, Bridgestone will take over Firestone's tire business, though the U.S. firm will retain a 25% interest in those operations...
...P.I.O. had been engaged since 1978 in the hopeless task of trying to improve the image of the Palestine Liberation Organization. It made no bones about being an arm of the P.L.O., which makes few bones about engaging in terrorism. Just last spring the P.L.O. decided to retain Abul Abbas on its executive committee, even though he masterminded the 1985 hijack of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, in which elderly American Leon Klinghoffer was murdered...
Horner also ensured that Radcliffe would not die out. She cut what was called a "merger-non-merger" deal with Harvard, finalized in 1977. that let Radcliffe retain its endowment, fundraising and administrative autonomy while merging admissions. Horner fought to preserve Radcliffe in order to ensure that women had an advocate on campus...
...remarks left the future of Afghanistan's Marxist president, Sayid Mohammad Najibullah in serious doubt. Foreign observers believe Najibullah, 41, will not be able to retain his grip on power if he is deprived of Soviet military backing...