Gaines converted Mad to a magazine in 1955, partly to retain the services of its talented editor Harvey Kurtzman, who had received offers from elsewhere.

Under its plan Du Pont would retain its General Motors shares but be required to pass on to its stockholders the right to vote those shares.

For example, property `` used in the trade or business '' of a transferor corporation, as defined in section 1231, presumably would not retain its special status following a non-taxable reorganization if it is not so used in the business of the acquiring corporation.

Loyalty requires affection also to the office of the Sovereign, attachment to royalty, attachment to the law and to the constitution of the realm, and he who would, by force or by fraud, endeavour to prostrate that law and constitution, though he may retain his affection for its head, can boast but an imperfect and spurious species of loyalty ( R v O ' Connell ( 1844 ) 7 ILR 261 ).

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

Among its adaptations for cold survival are its deep, thick fur, a system of countercurrent heat exchange in the circulation of paws to retain core temperature, and a good supply of body fat.

It does however retain its separation from sexual attraction and as such is seen by many as an orientation within an orientation amongst the asexual community.

However, Beethoven did not retain this version, and kept rewriting until he had found its final form, with the words < em lang =" de ">" O Freunde, nicht diese Töne "</ em > (" O friends, not these tones ").

Stability of the weaponized agent ( ability of the agent to retain its infectivity and virulence after a prolonged period of storage ) may also be desirable, particularly for military applications.

This procedure may be performed by leaving the donor tissue connected to the original site to retain its blood supply ( the vessels are tunnelled beneath the skin surface to the new site ) or it may be cut off and new blood supply may be connected.

* RPM – The RPM Package Manager uses Berkeley DB to retain its internal database of packages installed on a system

Maimonides was concerned about the need for the law to guard itself in public perceptions, to preserve its majesty and retain the people's respect.

Again, a liquid receives its shape from the vessel in which it is contained ; but were the pressure of the containing sides withdrawn, it would not retain its form for an instant.

Modern versions typically retain Camelot's lack of precise location and its status as a symbol of the Arthurian world, though they typically transform the castle itself into romantically lavish visions of a High Middle Ages palace.

The company's computer systems, especially the C64 and Amiga series, retain a cult-following among their users decades after its demise.

Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population — the Carib Indians — about 3, 000 of whom live on the island's east coast.

Essentially the Damascus-headquartered DFLP under Hawatmeh was able to retain its external branches, whereas the majority of the organization within Palestine, mainly on the West Bank, was taken over by FIDA.

However, a bullet fired at an angle not perfectly vertical will retain its spin on the way down and can attain much more lethal speeds.

The number of guns an individual may own and retain in its home is restricted by a classification: three common handguns, six sporting handguns / long guns, and an unlimited number of hunting long guns.

Geneva's right to access to CareerLink will be restored and the college will retain the statement on its employment applications stating, " Compliance with Geneva's Christian views is considered a bona fide occupational qualification ... and will have a direct impact on employment consideration.

According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration ( 1984 ) and the Basic Law, Hong Kong will retain its political, economic, and judicial systems and unique way of life and continue to participate in international agreements and organisations as a dependent territory for at least 50 years after retrocession.

From the 6th century AD until 771, the area around modern-day Hastings, as the territory of the Haestingas tribe, considered itself to be a separate Kingdom from the surrounding Kingdoms of Suth Saxe (" South Saxons ", i. e. Sussex ) and Kent, and attempted to retain its separate cultural identity until the 11th century.

Madelyne's hairstyle was modeled after the book's editor, Louise Jones ( later Louise Simonson )— a look the character would retain until 1988.

He'd been trying obliquely to sell a comic book premise to DC or Marvel, but neither company would allow Aragonés to retain the copyright.

As World War II ended the popularity of the superhero comics diminished, and in an effort to retain readers comic publishers began diversifying more than ever into war, Western, science fiction, romance, crime and horror comics.

However at that time no comic book company would allow creators to retain the rights to their characters and Aragonés did not wish to surrender those rights.

We took the matches -- they were book matches and once they'd been touched might retain fingerprints -- and the change.

Moreover, early Christian Church Fathers used canon to rank the authoritative texts of the New Testament, preserving them, given the expense of vellum and papyrus and mechanical book reproduction, thus, being comprehended in a canon ensured a book ’ s preservation as the best way to retain information about a civilization.

The book was initially published by Pacific Comics, briefly by Eclipse Comics, then Marvel Comics under their since-discontinued Epic Comics imprint ( which allowed creators to retain copyrights ), then Image Comics, and currently Dark Horse Comics.

McFarlane eventually would hand off scripting duties ( while still overseeing plotlines ) to other writers, and the book continued to retain a respectable following.

Rather, Toohey's methods throughout the book suggest that such a regime might be able to retain the forms of democracy, multi-party elections and a free press, with actual power held by Toohey-like " informal advisers ".

( The performing editions in the United States retain Nelson ’ s book.

He had an ability to select, comprehend, discern, and memorize relevant material, and grasp and retain the main points of a book while reading.

After he refused to remove his criticism of National Socialism from his book Deutschland und der Weltfrieden, the Nazis confiscated the passports of Hedin ’ s Jewish friend Alfred Philippson and his family in 1938 in order to prevent their intended departure to American exile and retain them in Germany as a bargaining chip when dealing with Hedin.

The Apostles retain a leather diary of their membership (" the book ") stretching back to its founder, which includes handwritten notes about the topics each member has spoken on.

In Leadbeater's book, The Masters and the Path ( 1925 ), the Masters are presented as human beings full of wisdom and compassion, albeit still limited by human bodies, which they choose to retain in order to keep in touch with humanity and help in its evolution.

This is saying something, since, with the volume of SF and fantasy I read, I do not exactly retain an eidetic memory of everything I've read that I can call up in a second or two unless the book literally bowled me over.

In his 1957 book The Exiled and the Redeemed, Itzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel, writes that Hebrew migrations into Afghanistan began, " with a sprinkling of exiles from Samaria who had been transplanted there by Shalmaneser, King of Assyria ( 719 BC )..." The Afghan tribes, among whom the Jews have lived for generations, are Moslems who retain to this day their amazing tradition about their descent from the Ten Tribes.

In 1955, he paid a $ 1, 000-a-month option for nine months on the Ian Fleming James Bond novel Moonraker ( he eventually gave up the option when he learned he could not retain the rights for the entire book series ).

After comfortably dispatching Central Florida Kraze 4-0 on the conference semi final, they then beat Southeast Division champions Carolina Dynamo to retain their Conference championship and book their place in the national Final Four for the second straight year.

His book as numerous speeches and magazine articles, were based on his ideals of community awareness and identity, his hatred of the Anaconda Company, and called on readers to retain an idealistic vision contesting the deadening demands of the modern corporate world.

In 1909, pastors across America were incensed by his third book, The Calling of Dan Matthews, which told the story of a young preacher who, like Wright, resigned from the ministry in order to retain his integrity.