Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last year totaled almost $170 billion. Washington hopes Canada will not break up and does not think it will. But if it does, the Bush Administration is prepared to live with whatever arrangement Ottawa and Quebec can agree on. Washington's biggest concern is that the new Canadian entity retain its economic health. Like most Americans, officials in Washington seem to think Canada is such a stable, prosperous and rational society that it will resolve its problems sensibly...
...authority of statistics and history to his argument: with an elegant weaving of charts and cultural observations, he paints a picture of the Reagan decade as America's third period of "heyday capitalism," when the poor got poorer, the middle class had to get rich in order to retain a middle-class life-style, and being rich had to be redefined to account for the tripling in the number of multimillionaires...
...outstanding scholar and teacher," said Government Department Chair Robert Keohane. "We were lucky we were able to retain...
...envision Europe as a union of states with common institutions to assure military and environmental security, along with cooperation in science and culture. Each state would retain its local and national character and have the right to protect its special interests without prejudice to others. Borders must remain inviolable, but they should also acquire a new quality of openness, permitting all kinds of cooperation and communication, as long as it is based on equity and mutual respect...
...that sticking point remains. The commission voted narrowly to retain the controversial line, prompting criticism from Rabbi A. James Rudin of the American Jewish Committee, who is calling for a completely new play that "should reflect the reality of the 'cursed' Jewish people living in a reborn and independent state of Israel." Co-directors Christian Stuckl and Otto Huber, who worked closely with Jewish groups on the text, were also unhappy about the line's retention. "The effect of this sentence through the centuries was a very bad one," acknowledges Huber. Citing Christian theologians, Huber argues that the blood curse...