Word: retained
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...attempt to retain the original flavor but appeal to a 1983 audience who might not have been around in 1964. Lehrer has changed a few of the more duted lyrics, but purists won't appreciate the minor improvement. One noted exception lies in the "National Brotherhood Week" refrain: Instead of having "Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark of Selma, Alabama, dancing cheek to cheek," he has the equally improbable duo of Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass) and Jerry Falwell taking up the pose...
...cases, the schools cases wobble on particularly shaky ground. As the New Jersey court noted, found. "For four years, a student's locker is his home away from home." The administrators in New Jersey may have had a good instinct as their illegally seized evidence shows, but students still retain their rights. Again, the court. "He [the administrator] had, at best, a good hunch. No doubt hunches would unearth more evidence of crime on the persons of students or citizens as a whole. But more is needed to sustain a search." In effect, searching a student's locker...
...which appears in the beginning and at the end, evoking the common medieval theme of man's tenuous existence in the face of fate. However, the ballet is not historical in any other sense. The style is more modern than balletic, although the women dance in pointed shoes and retain classical arm and leg positions throughout much of the hour-long piece...
...forceful. Some experts, for example, have contended vigorously that dinosaurs must have been warm-blooded, like mammals and birds, in order to have mustered the internal heat, or energy, for an active, land-based life. Colbert disagrees. He explains that their bulk alone would have enabled large dinosaurs to retain body heat...
...Eastern, one hopeful sign emerged late in the week when Borman abruptly dropped his ultimatum. The action followed a series of labor-management talks prompted by former U.S. Labor Secretary William Usery Jr., whom Eastern had hired as a consultant. Eastern agreed during the sessions to retain a pair of outside advisers to examine its financial woes and propose solutions. The move was welcomed by the carrier's unions...