Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spears, clubs and battle-axes might seem to be totally outmoded weapons in an age of laser-guided bombs. But in South Africa they retain some power -- in one sense, more power than Winnie Mandela. Contrary to many expectations, it is the carrying of those supposedly "ceremonial" weapons by Zulus, not the possible jailing of Winnie Mandela, that has emerged as the chief obstacle to continuation of black-white negotiations on the nation's future...
...believe economic recovery is just around the corner, we have seen no evidence yet to indicate any improvement, and consequently the year remains uncertain." The IBM empire is striking back. In a marketing effort unparalleled in its 80-year history, the company launched an all-out offensive to retain current markets and recapture lost turf. The past 11 months have brought virtually nonstop announcements of new products, including a laptop computer, a home computer and a line of midrange computers costing an average...
...estimate, the destruction in Kuwait is on the order of $8 billion. Reparations are to be paid out of a fund financed by Iraqi oil revenues and administered by a special U.N. commission. That body must still determine what portion of Iraq's oil money to retain. Washington favors seizing 40% to 50% of the overall revenues, while London proposes 25% to 30%. But Iraq supporters like Yemen and Cuba want a much lower rate of 10%, arguing that anything higher would punish the Iraqi people too harshly...
...long-lasting sense of community they once could. Many said they see people putting their normal lives on hold when they come to the love-in, but at the end of the day they return to their regular ways of acting and thinking about the world. They do not retain the sense of "peace, love and happiness" that they felt in the group, the hippies said...
These artists have enjoyed long careers, and their voices still have the glow that sells out major opera houses. Other voices, once equally remarkable, do not retain their beauty, whether because of physical setbacks or misuse. Marilyn Horne, 57, has lost none of her taste or technique, but the nap is off that mezzo velvet. Hildegard Behrens, 54, an inspired dramatic actress, is now far easier to look at than listen to in the arduous roles she favors. A dozen years ago, handsome Peter Hofmann, 46, was a Wagnerian's dream of a heldentenor; today he mostly sings...