Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...page pact between the French government and the Walt Disney Co. stipulates a 49% ownership stake in Euro Disneyland for the U.S. firm, with the remaining 51% of the shares held by investors. Euro Disneyland shares will be traded on the Paris Bourse. Disney will retain operational control of the facility. As part of the deal, the government is lending Disney $920 million at a remarkably low 7.85% interest rate. Disney has agreed to use European firms for 90% of its goods and services, and will pay for various roads to be built near the complex...
Over 90 percent of these children will retain characteristics of fearlessness at ages two and three, over 80 percent will still be uninhibited at five years of age, and 70 percent will be extroverted as adults. Kagan said that the behavioral consistency of uninhibited children was due to a lack of intervention on the part of their parents. While parents of shy children place them in therapy that gradually desensitizes them to unfamiliar stimuli, the parents of bold children do not give them similar attention...
...period of severe domestic disarray. As the economy worsens, the republics are growing more restive, the forces of order more demanding and the left more fractious. In the face of such pressure, Gorbachev's efforts to govern look increasingly feeble. Moreover, he has linked his fate to those who retain power but who most resist real change: Communist Party apparatchiks, industrial managers, army generals, KGB colonels...
Gram-negative bacteria -- so named because they do not retain a laboratory stain devised by the Danish bacteriologist Christian Gram -- are usually harmless. They reside on the skin and in the gut, where they aid in digestion. But any significant disruption to the body's immune response -- caused, for instance, by severe burns, chemotherapy or major abdominal surgery -- allows these rod-shaped bacteria to multiply out of control and invade other parts of the body, eventually entering the bloodstream. Once there, one part of the bacterial cell wall called endotoxin can trigger a cascade of lethal effects, culminating in multiple...
...Since 1981, the 1.7 million Albanians in the Serbian-controlled province of Kosovo have been agitating for separate status. Last spring and summer the relatively prosperous northern republics of Slovenia and Croatia voted in free elections to install noncommunist, Western-oriented governments, while Serbia, the largest republic, chose to retain its communist government -- lately renamed socialist -- under hard-line President Slobodan Milosevic. Those divisive events were followed by a landslide referendum in which 88% of Slovenia's 2.1 million citizens voted for independence from Belgrade. Since then, the federal tax and monetary systems have all but broken down, and Slovenia...