Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...none is going to be the first to walk away. "If this is what we have to do, by God, we're going to show that we can be competitive," says Charles Gargano, chairman of New York's Empire State Development Corporation, which dispenses tax breaks to recruit and retain big businesses. The state agency recently kicked in $26 million to a $99 million war chest that New York City hopes will keep both the Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange and the New York Cotton Exchange from moving to New Jersey with their 5,000 jobs...
...legal issue at stake yesterday focused on Harvard's application last year to the Massachusetts Architectural Access Board for variances to permit the University to retain four doors in the Union that are by law too narrow for disabled individuals...
After the closed meeting, Dickerson said Truesdell had been "reprimanded by censure"--effectively put on probation. Although Truesdell must make a public apology for his actions, he will fully retain his role as an officer...
...harder to digest. Set in a futuristic world where reality and imagination are blurred, this piece sent out several mixed, but still fascinating, messages. At one point, the dancers, clad in shabby and torn leotards, appeared to be fighting against becoming machines and trying desperately to retain their humaness. At another point, two dancers clung to each other in a dramatic revelation of love, while animalistic squaks and growls played over the loudspeakers...
...Wilde attacks the hypocrisy and cruelty by making fun of it. He reduces its centerpiece, namely virtue, to a superficial and ultimately trivial possession by symbolizing it as a fan. Both are dainty, refreshing and highly transferable. Both are so difficult to retain only constant vigliance or compulsive attachment could prevent them from slipping away. Virtue is ephemeral, striking one moment as a gallant display, but in the next instant vanished from sight...