Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ECONOMY. We shall retain the public sector. It was our backbone during the very dark years of humiliation and defeat [after 1967]. It will continue to exist because it can take responsibility for building what the private sector fears to build: industry that may not be very profitable but that must be built. But let the private sector also be active. It will not be an open capitalist system, and I don't share the fears of the extremists. We will welcome Arab and foreign capital to help us build our country...
...dictatorship, the right had enjoyed such unique privileges as a law prohibiting strikes; as a result, Portuguese workers were the most poorly paid in Western Europe. How long businessmen would remain silent was still a question mark. "The families will fight like fury, like eunuchs in a seraglio, to retain their status," predicted Scares. "They will use all manner of economic and political sabotage...
...seeded junior varsity should retain its Sprints crown, with second-seed Pennsylvania providing the main opposition...
...undefeated Radcliffe crew will be seeking to retain its Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Championships title on Lake Beseck in Middlefield, Conn., this Sunday...
...Israeli Arab members of the Knesset. The alliance gave Mrs. Meir only a slim majority: 68 seats in a Parliament of 120 members. Bickering among the factions was one reason her government finally caved in. Rabin will have to use all of his generalship and his diplomatic persuasion to retain the ten Religious Party members. They differ with his moderate views on ceding some occupied territories as part of the peacemaking process; they also have a running difference with Labor on the sticky religious question of just who is a Jew and what rabbinical procedures must be followed for conversions...