Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failings-of the heart. But he also looked elsewhere in the circulatory system, and in 1955 he made an important discovery: he learned that increases in the blood levels of potassium can stimulate the production of aldosterone, an adrenal hormone that raises blood pressure by causing the kidneys to retain salt...
...SAUDI-U.S. RELATIONS: "Saudi Arabia is willing to retain its close relationship with the U.S. The relationship has been good, except when the Americans showed partiality toward Israel. Furthermore, we can safely say that Soviet infiltration in the area came as a result of Western policy in the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...minutes for the next three or four years." With 28 of the Folketing's 179 seats, the Progressives became the second largest faction in that body, after the Social Democrats' 46 seats and ahead of the Liberals' 22 seats. Current polls project that the Progressives will retain most of their support...
...renewal of the terms of disengagement between Israel and Egypt, he says he is prepared to withdraw Israel's forces as much as 30 miles farther back into Sinai, though the two passes would remain in Israeli control. "Otherwise," says a Rabin aide, "we will retain nothing of importance to bargain with in the next stage...
...arranges to draw off Sir Harcourt with a fresh scent, the county's hardest rider to hounds, Lady Gay Spanker. Naturally the proceedings are hampered by a covey of long-winded subplotters, plus every other known theatrical device, all of which Eyre has the gall to retain only to dispose of them with affectionate derision. Grace's pretty speeches are greeted with yawns, a tender love scene is made ridiculous by farcical staging, and the whole cast takes turns shamelessly mugging in asides to the audience. As the faded beau, Donald Sinden transparently masks an egoist...