Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government quickly takes action against the infection, forcing those already blind and those thought exposed to the virus to quarantine themselves within a mental hospital. Within the wards the inmates struggle to retain their humanity in an atmosphere in which hygiene is not an option, food is scarce and raw, and instinct threatens to rule their passions and actions. A militant group of inmates soon takes command of the wards, raping the women and killing anyone who disobeys them. Excrement, garbage, blood and corpses slowly fill the hospital as, with horror, the inmates feel themselves sinking further and further away...
...necessarily. Other communities have showered tax breaks on GM and its partners, assuming they would create or at least retain jobs. They were wrong. Volvo-GM closed a jointly owned plant (GM was the minority partner) in Orrville, Ohio, in 1996--just seven years after the county cut property and inventory taxes in half. Some 400 jobs were lost. The two automakers moved operations to Pulaski County, Va., where millions of dollars more in economic incentives awaited...
...sure, traditional sports retain huge audiences and monstrous marketing clout; the Super Bowl is watched by almost a billion people every year. But the era of the three-sport nation may be coming to a close just as surely as the era of the three networks. Experts forecast a future of a thousand TV channels, which will be looking for even more sports programming...
...holiday has managed to retain some of its Old English flair, with effigy-burning, dressing up, and drinking to the long life of the Queen. In colonial Boston, Guy Fawkes Day was solemnly observed with a day-long brawl between the residents of the North and South Ends...
Despite losses in a few close races, Republicans managed to retain their dominance of the nation's state houses...