Word: held
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...most glaring example was the first game, won by Penn, 16-14. Harvard held a commanding 14-10 lead, but couldn't put the game away, as the Quakers stormed back to win the final six points and the game...
...Administration is not reconciled to cutting Pakistan off permanently. Islamabad is the main link to U.S.-supplied mujahedin guerrillas in Afghanistan and the contributor of 2,000 troops to the gulf buildup. Two weeks ago, State Department officials sounded out Congress on extending aid without certification until elections are held in Pakistan next week. Legislators refused to go along with a waiver...
...doors of the hospitals were swinging open, the fiscal gates were clanging shut. Few halfway houses were ever established, and many community centers shifted their focus to family counseling and treating drug abuse and alcoholism. Programs also came under attack from budget cutters. California's services, once held up as a model for the nation, are being slashed. The new state budget lops $73 million from a planned outlay of $520 million for the community-care system...
...headlines studded with words like WAFFLE, RETREAT, BLINK and ZIG-ZAG. Bush's approval rating, which stood in the mid-70s only a month ago, plummeted 10 to 15 points. It was, said a senior Administration official, "the worst week of his presidency." The outpouring of criticism reflected long-held doubts about Bush's approach to domestic affairs. G.O.P. strategists complained that the President's flip-flops had weakened the widespread perception that Congress is more responsible for the budget fiasco than the White House. Complained a top adviser to the President: "We've managed to change the subject from...
...Israel has held on to the West Bank at least partly because of a belief that it needed the territory for defense against neighboring states that have never recognized its right to exist and often threatened to destroy "the Zionist entity." No one, not even Ayatullah Khomeini, has ever proposed to wipe Iraq off the map. Nor can Iraq conceivably claim that it needs Kuwaiti ( territory for defense. It fought off Iranian assaults quite effectively throughout eight years of war without making any use of Kuwaiti soil...