Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Presidents Commission drove a dent into these practices by requiring fourth-year students to have completed at least half their degree requirements to retain their eligibility. But it did not go far enough. Next year it should force colleges to pay for their recruits' education until graduation, no matter how long it takes. Even if the athlete gets injured. Even if the athlete quits the team. And the NCAA's minimum academic standards for athletes are still too low. Raising them further would encourage high school and college athletes alike to hit the books. So long as colleges continue...
Other recent diplomatic efforts are still more objectionable to the Bush Administration and are thus unlikely to bring meaningful results. King Hussein peddled his proposed solution during his spin through Europe. He offered a face-saving plan that might, for instance, allow Saddam to retain the strategically placed Bubiyan and Warbah islands, as well as the tip of the banana-shaped Rumaila oilfield that dips slightly into Kuwait from Iraq. Washington says a liberated Kuwait could make these and any other concessions to Baghdad it chooses but vehemently opposes rewarding Iraq's aggression with such promises before a pullout...
...back its entire collection of remains of the Ohlone tribe. Other museums and collectors followed suit, and in November President Bush signed a bill to protect Indian grave sites in the U.S. and to return remains to the tribes. In some instances, however, tribes have asked a museum to retain permanent control of the objects so they could be properly conserved...
...have confidence in the future of Hong Kong, but sadly I cannot convince others." Hong Kong's left-wing newspapers, which often reflect Beijing's views, accused the bank of abandoning the colony and damaging public confidence. Editorialized one of them: "The Hongkong bank wants to retain its privileges. It just doesn't want to accept any responsibility...
Whether Milosevic manages to retain control in Serbia's parliament in upcoming elections may determine whether the Yugoslav federation shatters. With a governing bloc, he could more easily press territorial claims against Croatia and grudges against Slovenia. Disintegration was not Poland's problem, and Walesa, despite his affection for Poland's prewar dictator, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, strikes few people as a Volk-glorifying Fuhrer. But in trouncing candidate-come-lately Stanislaw Tyminski, a returned emigre who offered a form of national salvation as easy as a drug trip, Walesa himself could not quite shake off charges of pandering to emotions...