Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shanghai I met a very brilliant young [chemistry] student. His professor was eager to retain him as a laboratory research assistant; his fiancée had a job in the municipal administration. From a list posted on the institute wall he learned that he had been ordered to a factory in remote Inner Mongolia for at least five years. He was not surprised. Of bourgeois origin, he was an 'expert' indeed, but not 'Red' enough to remain in Shanghai, a city that is still suspected of bourgeois and cosmopolitan proclivities. 'I shall work wherever...
Recalling the so-called land swap meeting between the University and the City earlier this month, Mrs. Wise introduced the amendment to retain the area in A-2. She asked that the land remain under present going until negotiations might allow the city to take over the University-owned eastern half of the Hill, now a playground for neighborhood children...
...time Stevenson had finished, the entire Foreign Relations Committee seemed satisfied. Said Republican Hickenlooper: "I have done whatever I could to retain you as a private citizen in the past, but I can assure you I have no intentions of that kind at this point." The committee unanimously approved Stevenson's confirmation...
...BALANCE OF PAYMENTS. As one answer to the problem, Dillon sees "no reason" for continuing the special tax incentives that the Government has used to encourage industry to go abroad to Europe, thinks that any change should retain them for firms investing only in underdeveloped or developing countries. To help exports grow, he favors continued pressure against restrictions imposed on dollar imports...
Although the Seven College Conference has voted to retain the Early Decision Plan of admissions, Radcliffe College officials have sharply criticized the system under which nearly one-third of the next year's freshman class is selected in October...