Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Corporation's decision to retain its security holdings in Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., considerably weakens the already tenuous policy it has adopted toward investments in companies operating in and lending to South Africa. It also demonstrates the difficulties inherent in implementing the ACSR recommendations set forth as guidelines in the Corporation report of April...
...haircut; his dress is conservative; his circuit, lectures. the Peoples Bicentennial Commission is now the Peoples Business Commission; more sophisticated economic arguments have replaced the shallow demonstration-oriented approach. And for the first time Barber and Rifkin offer more than just a passing look at events and issues. They retain the mass appeal outlook--their book went directly into paperback, their language is lively, and their ideas vividly expressed. But the end product is not a fleeting rehash of old ideas presented in a new way. Instead The North Will Rise Again offers carefully thought-out alternatives to the status...
Another insightful juxtaposition is that of David Smith's sketches with several pieces of his sculpture. Originally trained as a painter, Smith later concentrated on sculpture. Smith the sculptor, however, never quite lost his painter's orientation. His pieces, as a result, most always retain a reference to a frame and therefore the works do not always function as truly three-dimensional pieces. Such is his "Detroit Queen", an enchanting bronze creature whom Smith composed from auto parts...
...Jerusalem, the Knesset's agony over whether or not to accept the accords was shared by the country at large. Most Israelis believe that they must retain a presence in the occupied territories as security against future Arab attacks. Religious Jews, moreover, consider much of this land as their God-ordained birthright. Begin shares the religious Zionist view that occupied territories where Jews lived in biblical times are rightfully part of Eretz Yisrael. In fact, he almost torpedoed the Camp David talks on that issue...
...Japan and the World Bank, which is setting up fruit-export agencies on profit-making lines. In an interview, Amin insisted that the Russians would never manipulate his country or its economy, and disclosed that he had told both U.S. and Soviet ambassadors that "we want to retain our free judgment." But a shopping list of expensive prestige projects is being compiled at the planning ministry with Soviet advice, and Amin admitted that he has canvassed all non-Communist ambassadors for "cash commitments" ?which some see as blank checks from Washington. He seeks more aid along with "sincerity, honesty...