Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young who are most responsible for the changes in Moras En Valloire. They retain the peasant work ethic, for that is too deeply rooted in their psyches to discard; but generally they tend to be impatient with tradition. Instead, they prefer the future with its glittering promise of a new and better life ahead...
Members of an ad hoc committee on Med School admissions policies reported last week that they will recommend that the school retain the minority subcommittee--which screens minority group applicants--although they believe its authority should be somewhat reduced...
...once was on paper. He would turn over control of the national budget to an appointed Cabinet. A panel of Shi'ite mullahs, his most vociferous critics, would be given the power to veto new laws that were not in conformity with Muslim doctrine. The Shah, however, would retain command of his 280,000-man army, and this was a condition that few Shi'ites, or few other Iranians, for that matter, would now readily accept...
...kind of thinking, a veteran policymaker observed last week, caused the U.S. to "miss a chance to act. Washington proceeded on the assumption that what the Shah needed was propping up; what he really needed was to be told the facts of life." The facts: if he wanted to retain even a semblance of power, he would have to find some way to accommodate his more moderate opponents by moving toward the establishment of democratic institutions. By standing fast for so long, he united the opposition behind its most militant faction, which will settle for no less than his ouster...
...Daniel D. Federman, dean for students and alumni at the Med School, said the ad hoc committee decided at its meeting before vacation to retain the subcommittee, but will recommend that the full admissions committee play a stronger role in selections than in the past...