Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suddenly, letters and telegrams poured in from all over the country, beseeching the town fathers to retain the storied names. The officially incorporated United States Monopoly Association, whose members conduct annual matches in white tie and tails, further insisted that Baltic and Mediterranean ought to sport "the appropriate purple street signs"; the association seriously threatened to bring the matter to the attention of the Department of the Interior's board on historic sites and monuments...
...which he is feuding,-the first such omission by a President since 1956, when Dwight Eisenhower was recovering from a heart attack. Nixon's wholesale dismissal of various Administration officials similarly was accomplished through the indirect device of demanding the resignations of all appointees, then selecting whom to retain, rather than personally calling in the condemned to be fired...
...President scrapped much of the control mechanisms of Phase II and substituted a kind of honor system in which most companies and unions will be expected to obey pay-price guidelines voluntarily. For those who abuse their new liberty, the Government will retain what Treasury Secretary George Shultz called a stick in the closet-the authority to enforce compliance with the guidelines. In essence, Phase III follows the "jawboning with teeth" strategy long championed by Nixon's Democratic critics. Indeed, it is close to a campaign proposal of George McGovern's. Its main features...
NATO would like to retain the Malta lease as cheaply as possible. Last week, as a result, Britain's NATO partners offered Mintoff an additional $2,000,000 one-time increase. At week's end, the Prime Minister had not made up his mind whether to accept the offer. His latest ploy was a rather dramatic attempt to shame NATO into upping the ante. He said that Malta would refuse all payments under the present contract but would magnanimously let the British remain, free of charge. That, at least, was a new scene in an all too familiar...
...long as possible. If he puts a seriously ill patient into a general hospital, the physician almost invariably loses all contact with him-and all income from the case. Of the country's 6,800 general hospitals, only about 50 allow a G.P. to obtain staff privileges and retain charge of his patients...