Word: holds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Krenz made it clear that he would fight to hold on to his job. "I am here to stay," he told factory workers near East Berlin. "I didn't take over just to push for change for a few weeks." Krenz said he was ready for an "unsparing investigation" of the party's mistakes and transgressions. He and the beleaguered Politburo also took a first step toward some form of power-sharing by proposing round-table talks on reform with non-Communist parties and legal opposition groups; the agenda would include changing the constitution, which currently gives the Communists...
...December 16, administrators, faculty and staff with telephone numbers in the 495 and new 432 Medical Center exchanges will be able to transfer, forward and hold calls. The new system will also allow users to distinguish between calls placed from other University lines and those from outside Harvard...
...spokesperson for the rebels said the U.S. move was an affront to Filipino sovereignty and the mutineers would hold Ambassador Nicholas Platt personally responsible for the intervention...
...indication in the above quotation of intellectual inconsistancy or of Dershowitz's defending Israeli tactics in the territories, or of any "apologetic" attitude towards Israeli human rights violations whatsoever. Unfortunately, recognition of the facts would have meant that Larew's Dershowitz as "rationalizer" argument couldn't hold much weight...
...hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature," is written in heavily ornamented lettering above the stage in the Boston University Theatre. The Huntington Theatre Company seems to have taken this phrase to heart...