Word: holds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communists hold all the key ministries on the new 21-member Cabinet. Thirteen members are holdovers from the administration that resigned last month under public pressure...
...upset because we're doing them a favor by playing them, "Roby said. "When we went to Duke, we didn't hold the ball, We went to play because we're trying to help our team get better...
...problem arises from the strong authority exercised over PBHA by the non-students. According to some PBHA members, the organization's paid professional staff doesn't give enough weight to the concerns of student members. Perhaps this is because Johnson began only this semester to hold regular formal meetings with student coordinators. Or maybe it is because undergraduates do not even control the funds that pay the the professional staffers--Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 does...
...slaying on Nov. 16 in San Salvador of six Jesuit priests has caused such outrage in Washington that Congress is suddenly talking about reducing U.S. aid if the Cristiani regime does not conduct a thorough investigation. Last week the House of Representatives narrowly blocked a Democratic proposal to hold back 30% of the $85 million in U.S. military aid to El Salvador this year. The events of the past two weeks also underscore U.S. intelligence failures, most notably the now apparent undercounting of the F.M.L.N. forces. Judging by the scope of the rebel push, Washington officials concede that there...
...there were only two choices: hold the third national election in less than a year, or adopt the parliamentary course of last resort, a government of national unity. Last week Greece's three warring political groups swallowed hard and chose the latter. In the new government that was . sworn in last week, conservatives, socialists and Communists are for the first time ever steering the ship of state in unison. The new coalition, which is led by Prime Minister Xenophon Zolotas, 85, a former governor of the Bank of Greece, will remain in office until new elections in April...