Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largely true, as politicians never tire of remarking, that respect for law and authority-whether in the form of the cop or the university or the President-has diminished markedly in the last generation. However, a society that expects to keep challenge within reasonable bounds must retain a sense of perspective. Demands that the letter of every law be enforced to the full are risible. Myriad statutes range from Internal Revenue Service rulings to Coast Guard safety regulations for pleasure boats, and hundreds of such laws are widely flouted by the most respectable citizens. It is seldom that a responsible...
...possibility exists that the staff will decide to retain all their present members as official sectionmen, thereby provoking a confrontation with the University. But this is only speculation as nothing definite will be known until after today's meeting...
...addition, Chrysler hopes to save money by cutting its two-year or 24,000-mile general warranty to one year or 12,000 miles and restricting it to the original owner instead of the first two. The company will retain the five-year or 50,000-mile "power train" warranty, which it devised in 1963 to cover defects in such things as the engine, transmission and differential...
Each of the drives will retain its own chairman, but an overall "drives chairman" will be chosen by a council sub-committee to coordinate the activities. The overall chairman will serve as a member...
Once again, the central bankers of Western nations rallied last week to support the pound sterling. They agreed to give Britain $2 billion of stand-by credit. This time, however, Britain's creditors insisted on tough new terms to correct the anomaly of a country that seeks to retain prestige as an international banker while remaining perennially broke. The outcome was a plan to reduce-and perhaps gradually end -the pound's function as one of the world's two reserve currencies...