Word: retained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though each African country has its own unique problems, all share the common difficulty of tribalism. Education and industrialization are gradually creating a more sophisticated urban class. Nevertheless, most Black Africans retain such intense allegiance to their tribes that they actively distrust most outsiders. That attitude breeds tribal nepotism within governments, fosters rivalries and often leads to bloodshed...
...issue of war with the Arabs, nearly every Israeli is a hawk. Such unanimity dissipates when it comes to the question of planning for peace. While most hard-liners insist on retaining every square inch of territory conquered in the 1967 war, an impressive number of Israelis feel that some concessions are necessary. Most political doves, however, are reluctant to speak up. They are all too well aware of the controversy such talk invariably provokes. Early last year, for example, when Premier Levi Eshkol suggested that Israel might not retain some Arab-populated areas of the West Bank, an awesome...
...referee's starting gun during a hilariously corrupt intraservice football game. Instead, there are the results of bullets; men bleed on-camera in great arterial gushes. The wounded are flown in on helicopters and stain their sheets as they die silently. The film's two main characters retain their sanity the way men have always done in the shadow of death, with a gallows humoresque...
Although Hartman will be able to retain the UFS post, he will not be re-appointed as assistant professor when his term expires in June. The UFS program allows students to work in urban communities for academic credit...
...Retain the concept of concentration as "the focal point for a student's ... educational experience," but allow students to devise (in consultation with an appropriate member of the faculty) their own concentration programs centered on either a discipline or a "problem ... or broad question...