Word: retained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's golf team shot its best 18-hole round of the season yesterday, at the Concord Country Club, in coming from behind to retain its Greater Boston Championship...
...budget proposal calls for the termination of some domestic programs that members of both parties say they will fight to retain, including Amtrak passenger subsidies, the Small Business Administration, the Job Corps, Urban Development Action Grants and the rural housing program. Spending on farm programs would be reduced by $14.9 billion over three years, and the levels of some Medicare payments would be frozen...
...like a good champion in training suppresson his boyish fantasies out of respect for Navarre. After some is needed for more important things, like breaking the evil spell that turns Navarre into a wolf each night and Isabeau into a falcon each day. Seemingly the only mortal lead to retain his human form for more than two hours at a stretch, Phillippe becomes a go-between for the star-crossed lovers, embellishing their tender messages with fanciful tidbits from his own overripe romantic imagination. The lovers' tragic separation gradually softens Phillippe's cynical and egocentric approach to life so that...
Fuller adds that physicians at Harvard teaching hospitals such as MGH say they are particularly happy with their posts, and tend to retain them longer than many colleagues at other affiliated hospitals...
...Moose Jaw, Sask., where the infant, Jesus O. Tarbox, is to be put forward as a new Messiah. The play is performed at fever pitch by its authors, Levi Lee, Larry Larson and Rebecca Alworth, and their dual roles have made them a little undisciplined: they have tended to retain anything that gets a laugh or a gasp of astonishment. Thus the first act ends with startling visual evidence that the infant really possesses spiritual powers; the second act does nothing to explore that provocative notion. Still, the , show's energy never flags, and its lunatic characters are perversely endearing...