Word: retains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company to buy Aluminium. Tube would hold a 51% interest, so keep the new company nominally British; Reynolds would hold the other 49%. Tube-Reynolds asked Lord Portal to hold up the Alcoa deal, promised to pay his shareholders an "attractive" price, even promised to retain the Portal management...
...with extraordinarily powerful drives from the point, many of them being shot while the puck was still in motion from a pass. The Russian teamwork was such that their passes almost never went astray, and the Crimson found it nearly impossible to take the puck away or even to retain possession of it for more than a few seconds...
...Committee discussed the possibility of having petitions presented to the nominating committee by seniors, but decided to retain the method of opening nominations after the official committee has announced its selections...
What the Communists presumably mean by a confederation is an arrangement under which both East and West Germany would retain their present governments and economic systems, and even commitments, but would establish some kind of "federal" parliament or high commission to regulate any trade and relations between the two Germany's, the one free, the other Communist. Even if a confederation were fairly proportioned between West Germany's 54 million people and East Germany's 17.4 million, it would mean open Western acceptance of the East German Communist government and of the Soviet presence in East Germany...
...education for women. The purging of the anti-feminists is half forgotten by university administrators who are already enamored of the emerging sexless society. Today we are all egalitarians, convinced, as Mary McCarthy has put it, that women must be as badly educated as men if they are to retain their self-respect...