Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middlebury faculty rejected two minority reports, one to do away completely with ROTC and the other to retain the program in its present form...
Anthony Wedgewood Benu. 44, Minister for Technology, will retain his title, but take on extra responsibilities. He will now be in charge of the Ministry of Power plus some key industrial functions previously exercised by the Board of Trade...
...referendum last Spring, 683 girls voted in favor of dorm autonomy. Twenty-three voted to retain the present parietals of 72 hours a week...
...record 1 billion bushels, the surplus consisted exclusively of U.S. and Canadian produce stored at North American facilities. Today, surpluses are also piled high in Australia, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Soviet Union and Common Market countries. Most of the new exporters lack both the storage capacity and the inclination to retain their surpluses in order to stabilize world prices. As a result, the 1968 International Grains Arrangement, which was aimed at fixing minimum world prices, has all but collapsed...
...except his family. The book started as a report on the beginning of young Gerald's lifelong fascination with the animal world. The family, however, kept getting in the way. "It was only with the greatest difficulty," Durrell confessed, "and by exercising considerable cunning, that I managed to retain a few pages here and there which I could devote exclusively to animals." Then, when it was finished, his relatives ragged him for leaving out all the really funny family stories. Obligingly, Durrell set to work to make amends...