Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zlin was not so much concerned with the personal consequences of discovery and apprehension as he was with mission failure. Failure would plague him, give him no rest...Zlin did not consider his act theft, nor himself a thief. He was acting on behalf of his government and would retain none of the money, nor derive any gain from...
...most of the new states are fragmented parcels with few resources. Botha and his advisers are now redrawing the boundaries of these mininations, so that they will be contiguous and better endowed economically. If the scheme is completed, the new nations would be linked in an economic community but retain-on paper, at least-control of local legislation...
...service back in the black by ripping a page from A.P.'s ticker: turning U.P.I. into a cooperative of sorts. U.P.I. has invited more than 100 of its largest newspaper and broadcasting clients to become limited partners in the wire service. Under the scheme, Scripps and Hearst would retain 10% of the new company and stay on as managing partners. The remaining 90% would be sold in 45 shares, and no single client could own more than 10% of the firm. If successful, the restructuring would provide U.P.I. with as much as $4.5 million in new working capital...
...after state investigators found a tritium-tainted chocolate cake in a nearby kitchen that supplied lunches to 40,000 city schoolchildren. Radiation levels higher than normal were also found in the urine of local residents and in the water of a parochial school swimming pool. Rather than fight to retain its license, American Atomics decided to leave the state. Said Company President Peter Biehl: "It's quite clear that people don't want us in Arizona...
...need not have fretted so; the early imperishable books retain their power to move readers and influence novelists...