Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of places), Kennedy's victory presupposed a new willingness to risk much in the '60s. Kennedy's solution to the multibillion-dollar farm scandal-90% price supports -seemed no better than any answer offered before. His welfare programs, despite his reiterated pledge to retain a sound dollar, carried the threat of unbalanced budgets and more inflation at the same time that they strove to satisfy human needs. His pronouncements on the need for new diplomatic vigor in Western Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America were based on the assumption of a U.S. lag and his ability...
...holding company that owns the Garden, last week announced plans to build a mammoth, three-block, $38 million new sports and entertainment center to replace it, on the west side of Manhattan at a site yet to be chosen. To be privately financed, the new Garden (which will retain the old name) hopefully will be ready for the 1964 New York World's Fair, provide a fitting counterpart to the city's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts currently abuilding. Quipped the New York Times: it will be "a kind of Lincoln Center for the perspiring arts...
Thus the Crimson's gallant bid to retain its title in the face of prohibitive odds fell short. Coach Bruce Monro's varsity began to fly danger signals in its 7-3 win over Columbia, and it seemed that the roof fell in as the Crimson bowed to Dartmouth, 5 to 3. Still, a triumph Saturday would have kept the Crimson hopes alive, and it almost materialized...
...fact that the Union does not retain leftovers hampers the investigations. Officials will distribute questionnaires among freshmen at lunch today in an effort to track down the cause of the epidemic...
...African state did attempt to intervene in South Africa, the White Republic could not expect support from the Western nations, including Britain and the United States, which have already condemned apartheid in official statements and want to retain the friendship of the Afro-Asian states which now hold the balance of power in the United Nations...