Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silence is the lack of noise," argues Newman; "quiet is the lack of distraction." Of the two, quiet is preferable. "A certain amount of noise is necessary to retain our sanity," agrees Psychologist George A. Talland of Massachusetts General Hospital's Psychiatric Research Laboratories...
...Washington looks for U.S. exports this year to rise by $400 million, to $20.5 billion. But because many foreign nations retain trade barriers stiffer than those of the U.S., the Kennedy Administration foresees no major surge in U.S. exports-unless tariffs can be slashed throughout the free world. Agreeing with this viewpoint, the influential U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week resoundingly endorsed the President's drive for freer world trade...
Meanwhile in England, Bronislaw Malinowski was the first to follow Boas' example; his classic studies of the Trobriand Islanders (South Pacific) retain a certain preeminence even today. Yet his attitude toward his subjects reveals a sometime adherence to the rigidly traditional notion of the ignoble savage--a title such as The Sexual Life of the Savage gives this much away. In recent years as well, the most prominent British anthropologists, by refining and applying their method of "structural analysis," have published many brilliant analyses. But by and large they have been concerned as impartial social scientists rather than justifiably guilty...
Last week, in the published announcement that he would run this year to retain his office. Gage made no claim that he was bowing to popular demand. Said he of the practice so often used by other politicians: "One way or another they say in substance, I really do not want to do it, but so many of my host of friends have begged and pleaded that I have finally given way to their pressure.' "Concluded Gage: "I do not feel that I am anyone's glowing gift to Wyoming-in fact, Wyoming has done much more...
...Europeans in Algeria automatically become citizens for the first five years of independence, but may then opt for French citizenship. Those Europeans who wish to retain French citizenship from the start will be treated as "privileged" foreigners, with property guarantees and their own schools, but they must remain politically inactive...