Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is no doubt that the Jewish position is different from that of other ethnic minorities. The latter retain strong bonds with their mother countries for which they rally support (says California Congressman Thomas Rees: "Look what the Greeks did here during the Cyprus situation"). But no other foreign power is so crucially situated in the world today, or has comparably strong emotional claims on an American minority, as is the case with Israel and American Jews...
...That the admissions organization, in conjunction with the appropriate University offices, retain flexibility to respond to some of the problems that may arise by small changes in the size of the entering class, by small shifts in emphasis in admissions criteria used in the context of equal access admission policy, and by special recruiting efforts...
...willing to advocate a ban on arms sales, so long as what Senator Stuart Symington calls "the rules of the game" remain unchanged. It may well be that the arms trade is, in fact, necessary to the existence of sovereign states. Who can say that they should not retain the option of military force to protect themselves? Welko Gasich, a vice president of Northrop Aircraft Corp., puts it bluntly: "Until we have a bona fide world police force, it's still Dodge City and everyone wants a rifle over his door." Considering the rate at which arms are being exported...
...clear manifestation of the oil industry's desire to retain its control over the energy market is the publicity campaign it has waged against the introduction of methynol additives to gasoline. It has long been known that methynol--also known as wood alcohol--which can be derived from coal, natural gas, wood waste or recycled garbage, can be added to gasoline to stretch petroleum supplies and improve mileage. The widespread use of automobile fuel, composed of 70 per cent gasoline and 30 per cent methynol could eliminate American dependence on foreign oil supplies. But the oil industry claims that adding...
Andrews said although Maier's appointment ends this academic year, he may retain his senior tutorship until the end of the first semester of next year...