When the possible sale of the team to Cablevision was being negotiated two years ago, the price was said to be $400 million for 80percentt ownership, with Wilpon and Doubleday each retaining a 10percentt share.
Under Ottoman rule the major religious groups were allowed to establish their own self-governing communities, called millets, each retaining its own religious laws, traditions, and language under the general protection of the sultan.
In this musical technique I see a lesson for the cultures of the world: to exist in counterpoint with one another, with each retaining its individual cultural traits, but enriching the whole.
Now, the commission recommends a "lead" regulator, the Council for Higher Education, incorporating Offa, the Office for Student Loans (formerly the Student Loans Company) and a new, lightly staffed Office for Competition and Institutional Diversity, each retaining individual structures and purposes.
Recipes vary, but the Cross Culture version has a base of shredded coconut and heavy cream, and includes nine fruits of the earth, each retaining its own specific qualities: cauliflower, potato, green beans, lima beans, carrots, tomatoes, cashews, golden raisins and onions.
Formally, Poland and Lithuania were to be distinct, equal components of the federation, each retaining its own army, treasury, civil administration, and laws; the two nations agreed to cooperate with each other on foreign policy and to participate in a joint Diet.
More sculptural than painterly, his colors butt up against each other and at times overlap, but each retains its integrity.
As a federation, it represented several national craft unions that each retained autonomous operations.
Still, we each retain an infinite capacity for self-deception, and I'm no exception.
Yet each retains enough of its own DNA to rate among the most moving compositions of all time.
He had to "surgically separate" the books, "like conjoined twins, hoping that each retained sufficient major organs to survive".
