Word: retainers
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...Despite their vices, dynasties often retain their hold on people. Bhutto and Hasina remain genuinely popular, while crowds mob Gandhi and his sister Priyanka. From India to China, many people still place a high priority on helping their family first - business dynasties control some of the largest Indian companies, and princelings dominate sectors of the Chinese economy - so average citizens simply may look at family politics as normal. The fascination with celebrities also helps the dynasties, which produce known quantities ready for their close...
...that symbolic occasion, the Senate chose to retain a provision of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) that prevents Guantanamo Bay inmates from challenging their detention in court. This de facto suspension of habeas corpus applies to foreign aliens as well as U.S. permanent residents, to those who have committed hostile acts as well as many who have not. Most frighteningly, it applies to detainees against whom military prosecutors lack enough evidence to classify as enemy combatants—but who may nonetheless be kept in Guantanamo limbo indefinitely...
...These programs have something in common besides the power of their titles to make BBC executives blush: they were all commissioned by the digital TV channel, BBC3. Set up in 2003 to cater to precisely the younger audiences that Byford says are so tricky to retain, BBC3 has scored several successes, including an exuberantly tasteless comedy show called Little Britain. Featuring such popular characters as an incoherent delinquent called Vicky Pollard and a pugnacious, latex-clad homosexual named Dafydd Thomas, who deludedly believes he is "the only gay in the village," Little Britain drew a mass following...
...shock tactics don't grab viewers, star power often will. That's the thinking that drives the competition between the BBC and other broadcasters to sign and retain big-name talent. A recent hit for the BBC, a science-fiction-infused detective series called Life on Mars, made for the BBC by the independent production company Kudos Film & Television, won over viewers with its originality and an unstarry cast. It's an exception in an era when schedules at the BBC and at commercial broadcasters buckle under the weight of leaden fare built to showcase stars or to reprise themes...
...anything can happen from week to week, you can’t have a down week,” Princeton coach Roger Hughes said. “We have a playoff mentality every time we play an Ivy League game.”For the Crimson, a win will retain first place and a spotless Ivy mark for the team, which currently shares the top league spot with Yale.Hanging on to first place will require stopping a Princeton attack that features a deep group of talented receivers and the running of athletic scrambling quarterback Bill Foran, who averages 54 yards...