Word: retained
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...magazine will be similar to the other editions of TIME, which 32 million people around the world read each week. TIME AUSTRALIA will retain the parent magazine's award-winning design and news coverage. In addition, TIME AUSTRALIA will feature a new section, Australia, that will focus on major national news events. Other stories about life Down Under will appear throughout TIME AUSTRALIA in various sections of each issue, such as Economy & Business, Books, Medicine and Sport...
...retail cassette sales: 5% on the first 10,000 units sold, 6% on the next 5,000, 6.5% thereafter. Those figures are not frozen; tape publishing is about to make its own rules. Predicts Jane Friedman of Random House: "The issue today, ultimately, is that the publisher wants to retain all audio rights, but as in any contract, every point, every clause is up for negotiation. A publisher simply can't write its own ticket." Not yet, anyway. But recently, at the convention of the American Booksellers Association in New Orleans, efforts were made to create the Audio Publishers Association...
Despite feminist lobbying, the panel will retain traditional male nouns, such as Lord and Father, for the Deity. "They decided not to mess with God," remarks one Methodist official. But in deference to the sensitivities of blacks, the Lord will no longer wash sinners "whiter than snow" in the hymn Have Thine Own Way, Lord. And reflecting the Methodist mood of social activism, efforts are being made to strike phrases that emphasize longing for the next world over involvement in this...
...committee is unlikely, however, to alter the words of Charles Wesley, the 18th century patriarch of Methodist hymnody, even though some of his most durable lines lapse into military similes. Still to be determined is whether the new edition will retain the stern admonition of Charles' brother John, the founding ancestor of Methodism, which prefaces the current collection of hymns: "Sing them exactly as they are printed here, without altering or (a) mending them...
...cinematography reaches its peak in the paddle-off between Paul and Lili's boyfriend, Liu (Wang Xiao) as the former fights to prove himself true to his heritage and the latter to retain his girlfriend and his title as ping-pong champ. Showing the anguish and competitiveness of both contenders, this scene goes beyond a mere ping-pong contest and touches both characters at their souls...