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Only two days after the sale of The Phoenix to BAD, the displaced staff met in the hellway outside its locked Cambridge offices and decided to publish their paper as usual the following Monday, and voted to refrain from accepting job offers for at least two weeks. That policy has continued. Rotner said, and "a lot of people have turned down some incredible offers from Mindich...
...should be added that Thomas's reaction to Ryan is atypical. Most division managers respect Ryan's capabilities and some of them even honored his request to refrain from saying anything substantial to The Crimson. Ryan started as a bartender his freshman year, and worked his way up the HSA ladder. He became the manager of the catering division, one of the agency's most profitable enterprises...
Nowadays a great many adolescents, like Yeats, seem to be simply tossing a coin, and singing the same refrain...
...closing the show, gave him a chance to show his abilities. Cotton is not Dicky Betts, or Eric Clapton, but his rock lines, though predictable, are more than adequate. He's also a very fine country rock guitarist, a genre which demands special talents, particularly the ability to refrain from holding each note, blues style. His work on "Good Feeling," the band's most recent single, was excellent, remaining in the upper register of his instrument, but neither repetitive nor boring--a considerable feat considering the rock guitarist's preoccupation with high notes. With him, "C'mon," once a country...
...people, and he still smarts from Eisenhower's indecision over keeping him for a second term. There were immediate signs, however, that this time Agnew may be under presidential pressure to restrain his oratory. Nixon has told him to attack the Democrats forcefully on the issues, but to refrain from assailing personalities...