Word: retainers
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DESPITE the liberals' failure to retain their tenuous hold on the Cambridge City Council, the Independents' 5-4 majority is luckily just as tenuous. More encouraging is the prospect of a continuing progressive majority on the school committee, with the apparent election of three Cambridge Civic Association/Common Slate candidates and one unaffiliated moderate, Glenn Koocher...
...Indiscretion. The appeal then was filed as originally planned. Before it was heard by the Supreme Court, however, the Justice Department worked out an out-of-court settlement allowing ITT to retain the Hartford firm-its priority aim-but to divest itself of most of Grinnell Corp. and all of Canteen Corp. Some outside business and legal experts felt that a Supreme Court decision might have been rougher on ITT. But White House and Justice Department officials have called it a good settlement for the Government, a judgment with which fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox concurs...
...Clearly, we have every incentive to retain as much independence as possible in managing our finances, and there is no better way to insure this than by balancing our budgets, Rosovsky wrote...
...magazine, Yomiuri. When she wanted to go to a U.S. high school, her father belted her. The same thing happened when she wanted to become an actress. Because Makiko "talks too much," Premier Tanaka even advised her husband, musclebound Naonori Tanaka: "Beat her up once in a while to retain your prestige as a man." While she was only confirming what former Premier Eisaku Sato's wife has already revealed about Nipponese sexual politics, Makiko did hand reporters an irresistible opening line for the pugnacious Premier's next press conference: "And when, Mr. Prime Minister, did you stop...
There is also a vital need to retain the present liberal strength on the school committee. The central issue in that campaign is the retention of the progressive superintendent of schools, Alflorence Cheatham. With the support of the liberal majority, Cheatham has instituted several reforms in the city's school system. He has also demonstrated a refreshing willingness to involve teachers, students and parents in important policy decisions. If they gain the necessary seats, the Independents will almost certainly fire Cheatham and replace him with a more manageable but less skillful administrator...