Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ACCORDING to my Webster's dictionary, the Serbo-Croatian language is a marriage of two immiscible languages, Serbian and Croatian, which still retain individual identities in the form of separate alphabets. Serbian words are written in the Cyrillic alphabet; Croatian words, in the Roman. Milorad Pavic, who is a Yugoslav poet, must be sensitive to this split down the middle of his language. He has written a novel whose conceit is that it is a dictionary of three immiscible languages, with three distinct alphabets, corresponding to the three major religions that have shaped the Western world: Greek (Christian), Arabic (Islam...
...excuse is this: for years, I have been an Ohio State fan. With the Buckeyes sunk in the mud of a mediocre year, I have lost my passionate interest in the college game. I retain a certain intellectual curiosity. But the intellect, as I demonstrated Wednesday, is faulty, capable of making major blunders. The heart is perfect...
Graham, who is running a write-in campaign after losing the Democratic primary by 49 votes, must make sure that voters remember to write in her name using the stickers she has provided. Meanwhile Thompson is struggling to retain the advantage of having his name appear alone on the ballot in the 28th Middlesex District...
...reason why Graham has been hard pressed to hold her City Council seat in recent years. In 1983, she was one of four candidates for City Council to be elected solely from first choice votes on the city's preferential ballot. In the 1985 election, she barely managed to retain her position, coming in last among the nine seats on the Council...
Early on, KKR reportedly offered Shearson a $125 million "kill fee" to step aside. Cohen brushed off the idea as "personally insulting." Once serious talks began, the participants saw they had different strategies in mind. KKR preferred to sell the tobacco business to pay back the buyout loans and retain the food businesses, a good fit with the Safeway chain. Johnson's team wanted to keep the tobacco company and sell off Nabisco, Del Monte and the other non-tobacco parts of the business. Positions hardened shortly after , midnight Tuesday, when KKR partner Roberts made what may prove...