Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other races, Republicans were leading in efforts to retain the governorships of Arizona, Arkansas, South Dakota, Utah, New Mexico, and Wisconsin...
Leverett's undefeated touch football team rallied for three second-half touchdowns to overcome a stubborn Lowell House team, 25-19, last Wednesday and retain its first place tie with Quincy...
...voters' answer to Question #6 (which reads "Should the Commonwealth retain capital punishment for crime?") will not be binding on the state. But it is nonetheless obvious that a "No" vote will make final abolition of the death penalty more likely here...
Selling Off. Cole now plans to cut costs drastically to reduce future losses like last quarter's $1,200,000 deficit. He hopes to retain as many of his 1,700 highly skilled production workers as possible, while selling off a small Long Island subsidiary and sizable chunks of Chicago real estate once earmarked for expansion space. Preferring to press on in living color even if it is red, Cole still does not plan to diversify, or even return to black-and-white, which has recently been enjoying a modest boom...
...have provided a fascinating ambiguity in the Charge of the Light Brigade. For the futuristic coldness of Nolan reveals his incompetent and neurotic superiors in a new, more humane light. Soldiers who fight wars as though they were on parade will produce horrendous disasters, but through it all they retain a certain character, and, one feels, the potential for charity. As Nolan unknowingly predicts before leaving England, the campaign in the Crimea would mark not only the last of the gallant wars, but the first of the modern ones. When the Charge is over, the viewer does not feel...