Word: retained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month before he takes over as head of the President's Council of Economic Advisors Feldstein, who joins a large contingent of Harvard-affiliated advisors in the Administration, plans to return to his post in the Economics Department within two years--the maximum allowed for those who wish to retain tenure...
DIED. Wladyslaw Gomulka, 77, Polish leader who retained a fierce loyalty to traditional Communist dogma despite his "Polish road to socialism" approach that irritated the Kremlin; of cancer; in Warsaw. Once considered one of the most influential leaders in the Communist world, Gomulka insisted that Communist countries should retain a degree of independence in domestic matters, even while supporting the general Soviet policy line, a view that resulted in his removal in 1948 as Poland's leader. Jailed from 1951 to 1954 for opposing Stalinist economic collectivization, he returned to power in 1956 following the Poznan "bread and freedom...
...rarely sees a mullah on the street, a clear sign of how hated the clergy are. Khomeini, once the idol of the people, has managed to become as hated as the Shah, if not more. The reason he has managed to retain his power is simple: a minority of Iranians are ferociously committed to him. But the people who do not support him have become cautious for two reasons: the regime's medieval brutality and their bitter disillusionment with revolutionary change. They are not willing to trust another leader easily, fearing a new, perhaps even more devastating betrayal...
Yellow Pages. Local telephone companies will retain the lucrative publishing rights to the Yellow Pages directories, which brought in about $3 billion in revenues in 1981. Under the January agreement, that part of the Bell empire would have gone to the national company. Telephone Equipment. Local companies will also be allowed to market, but not make, telephone and other related equipment. Both were to have been done by the national company...
Graves' original idea of placing a village of small, temple-like pavilions on the blue-painted top of his building has also been simplified. Still, in its overall effect, the completed building manages to retain the quixotic quality of Graves' early sketches...