Word: retainers
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...million people. Most are descendants of Korean laborers who came to the islands when Japan's 1910-1945 colonization of the peninsula took away their jobs and land. More than four decades later, there is little discernible difference between the two peoples, but Koreans still face discrimination. Those who retain their Korean citizenship are ineligible for most civil service jobs, such as public school teaching, and they cannot vote...
Such caveats, opponents claim, bolster the contention that the Front is a neo-Communist Party anxious to retain much of the old order. "Iliescu is just like Gorbachev," charges Iuleu Boila of the Peasant Party. "He is interested in perestroika rather than real change...
...skull of Piltdown man, have had deep cultural ones. Others still, like the phony mermaids that turned up in the cabinets of Renaissance collectors and the fraudulent photographs of fairies that deceived Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, may not have mattered greatly but retain a certain fascination as souvenirs of human credulity...
...potential 28 years behind bars. But in the settlement, prosecutors dropped their most serious charges, including insider trading and racketeering, which carried a potential prison sentence of more than 500 years. Moreover, with a personal fortune estimated to be in excess of $1 billion, Milken is likely to retain a sizable nest egg. "Justice wasn't served," declares Albert Sindlinger, who runs a stock market-research firm catering to small investors. "Considering all the damage he did to stockholders, taxpayers and the public's confidence in the stock market, Milken is getting off easy...
...despite the skill of the California-based challengers, the Harvard team managed to retain its equanimity throughout the final match, said Lennon's partner, David S. Coale...