Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Army to put down their guns and join the political dialogue. She has endorsed the removal from the Philippines of two U.S. military installations, Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Station, but, like Ninoy, she is vague about when they must go. She has promised to retain the bases at least until 1991, when an agreement with the U.S. expires. Despite her status as a folk hero to many Filipinos, Aquino will have to work hard to defeat the President at the polls. During the election campaign, the opposition expects Marcos to outspend the $28 million...
...answer turns out to be simple: Make bold with the material, taking care only to retain its important truth, which is an emotional one. This has been accomplished in two ways. The film's viewpoint is not the writer's, who in effect saw her subject from the air. The camera is firmly on the ground, looking for close-ups. The movie's manner is not the author's either. It is concerned with restoring what she left out: factual (as opposed to spiritual) biography of a conventional kind, drawn from Thurman's book, a study of Finch Hatton...
Hewitt says he wants to build a computer network which works like "a human organization." In his network, computers would be in communication with each other but would retain the ability to act independently...
Regardless of the bureaucratic logic involved, the College failed to take the initiative to retain a uniquely qualified talent. This omission reflects a blatant disregard for both the instructor's merits and students' earnest and repeated demands for such a course as Wu was willing to teach. The refusal to take an academic seriously, not in spite of ethnic differences but precisely for them, is tantamount to an attitude of tokenism...
...order to retain the "A-Crowd," Rudolf adheres to his "Most Advanced Yet Acceptable" (MAYA) concept, calculating apparently that the truly trendy will dig the most outrageous nightclub they can find, up to a certain point. "It makes you go just as far as you can go and still have a following," he says...