Word: retainer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Corporation said in a statement issued last April that it would not hold non-voting investments in banks that make loans to the South African government but stated it would retain its common stock and influence corporate practices in South Africa as a shareholder. J.L.T...
...dispute highlighted the financial plight of even the great regional museums, which cannot match the buying power of federally funded institutions. Said Howard W. Johnson, president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: "This isn't parochialism or regional pride. The issue is, how do we retain the cultural strength of our cities...
...guerillas oppose the elections because whites would retain control of the police, security forces, judiciary and civilian administration, 28 seats in the 100-member parliament and four cabinet posts. White Rhodesians voted last week for their parliamentary representatives...
...elections will pick the first black-majority Parliament in Rhodesian history. Whites, however, will retain significant constitutional and military control in the government, observers...
...reception of The China Syndrome makes clear, America's newest nightmare concerns an apocalypse of nuclear accidents. But many of the same audiences seem blissfully unconcerned about chemical accidents, even though some compounds may retain their toxic strength longer than radioactive trash. Worse, many people are willing to live with large amounts of one of these chemicals, a compound called 2,3,7,8 tetrachlo-rodibenzo-p-dioxin, also known as dioxin. The attitude may prove suicidal. A common contaminant of several widely used herbicides, dioxin is so deadly that a few ounces could poison whole communities...