Word: retains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retained earnings, they are a prime source of the investments in new plant and machinery that increase production, improve product quality and create jobs. Aggressive and innovative companies often retain high percentages of their profits for expansion. One example: Levi Strauss & Co., whose jeans clothe the world. The company, a large share of whose stock is owned by the Haas family, generally retains nearly 90% of its profits for reinvestment, like the recent opening of a new factory in the little town of Roswell, N. Mex. The plant created 350 new jobs, each at a cost to the company...
What the play cannot retain as political allegory it can make up in sheer drama, but this possibility is diluted by Lester Thompson Jr.'s overly symbolic direction and the general inadequacy of the actors. Thompson sets the living room in the middle of a basketball court, a heavyhanded attempt to indicate omnipresent memories of glories past. As the audience enters, a young man is shooting baskets, and we find out later that he is supposed to represent the spirit of Martin, the fifth player who never comes to the reunions. He stays there through the beginning of the play...
...been very conservative about this. I would phase it hi very cautiously and without much increase in what we are spending overall now. Historically there's been a high correlation between Democratic Administrations and balanced budgets and between Republican Administrations and gross deficits. I would retain that commitment...
...with a midterm worth 15 per cent of the final grade, the students must retain all the material for the two tests...
...film forms an interesting contrast to the spectacularly beautiful footage of Miura's practice runs at the lower altitudes and the wildly scary stuff at the end, when he is literally in danger of sailing right off the top of the world (only a parachute allows him to retain a measure of control...