Word: retained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oscar Wilde. Although the frivolity of sport obviously addles the athlete's mind so that he or she deviates from Rightthink (to quote: "The houses with the highest percentage of athletes tend to vote the most conservatively--against the campus norm"), I would argue that such activity helps students retain their sanity...
...dean's ideas are good ones, and we're as optimistic as we are hopeful that the faculty will support Spence when they discuss his proposal tomorrow. Times change, and if Harvard is to retain its position at the forefront of education, it will have to change along with them...
...fashioning the provisional constitution, Aquino hoped to stake out a middle ground between those who urged creation of a "revolutionary government" and those who agitated for maintaining "constitutional" rule. In her nine-page proclamation, the President stressed that she would retain all the rights guaranteed in the 1973 constitution (among them freedom of speech and assembly). The infamous Amendment Six, which allowed Marcos to claim emergency powers under martial law, was rendered moot because the proclamation gives Aquino full legislative powers. Justice Minister Neptali Gonzales, who helped frame the provisional constitution, pronounced the new government "revolutionary in origin, democratic...
Supporters of the proposal again remind council members that they would have to spend only a few cents of the roughy $80 per district to retain the funds...
...levies that hamper agricultural diversification. She has said she will try to negotiate better repayment terms for the foreign debt in the hope that export earnings will be freed to stimulate growth. Not surprisingly, businessmen were among her most ardent backers, and Aquino's economic policies are certain to retain a pro-private enterprise tilt...