Word: retains
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That small act of concern symbolizes the problem that confronts Governor Dixy Lee Ray, her state of Washington and indeed the entire Pacific Northwest. The unspoiled region is struggling to preserve a natural balance that is threatened by the works of man, striving to encourage progress yet retain the beauty of the forests, the mountains and the seacoast that make the area so mistily appealing and define its very essence...
...African National Council's youth wing in Salisbury, Muzorewa said he was willing to enter negotiations. Expressing sympathy for the idea of guarantees for whites, the bishop added that "we are sincere and honest when we say we will look very seriously to those things that will retain their confidence and trust in the future...
...spokesman for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Health and Sciences Subcommittee, said yesterday the new legislation would retain a 5-per-cent mandatory increase in enrollment in the third year class at American medical schools for one year. The change would, however, allow the schools to choose from an unlimited pool of foreign-trained Americans and transfers from two-year American programs...
...current OPEC price of about $13.50 per bbl. The aim: to discourage domestic oil consumption. To encourage increased domestic production and reduce imports, the plan would allow the price of newly discovered oil to rise to the 1977 OPEC level, and the oil companies to retain the increased revenue. To lessen the draining effect of the wellhead tax on consumer spending power Carter proposed that much of the tax proceeds be recycled back to consumers in the form of rebates...
...production is not all that is needed; vast amounts of energy are available from unconventional and extremely costly sources such as tar sands and shale, and potentially limitless energy is at hand in the form of solar and geothermal power. The best-and most likely-compromise solution is to retain the wellhead tax but channel some of the proceeds into research and development programs for unconventional sources...