Word: retaining
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...After reading the [election] by-laws, I resigned," said Nelson. "And even though there was a possibility that I could retain my seat, I didn't want my integrity questioned. When I was campaigning, I wasn't aware of any violations...
...Wagner said the Coop's board was doing everything in its power to keep members' rebates high. The board has the right to retain a percentage of the profits generated from sales to members, but it has declined to do so in the past few years, he said...
Thus the U.S. should retain its leading role -- but not by the same wide margin. The U.S. effort in the gulf and the international support it rallied show that there are still tasks that only the U.S. is able and willing to undertake. It also shows that the U.S. cannot and should not undertake them alone. In the emerging, decentralized world, no single power will play the kind of predominant part that was possible in the 19th and 20th centuries. It will be an era of diffused power. In his book Bound to Lead, political scientist Joseph Nye Jr. speaks...
...Second American Century will require the U.S. to retain and greatly improve its role as an example...
This whole strange country that can endlessly fool itself and be fooled and yet retain a saving common sense; this materialistic, money-driven country that is constantly caught up in moral, sometimes naively moralistic struggles; this smug country that is relentlessly self-critical; this freest of all countries in the world, living both the dangers and the triumphs of freedom...