"When you buy a watch it has generally retained value".
Yet he has generally retained the support of the masses, who elected him in 1998 by a wide margin.
BELLSOUTH, meanwhile, has generally retained analysts' confidence, but it has raised some concerns, with a failed bid for the Sprint Corporation last fall, for example.
Among performers, Mr. Ecker said, golden age opera singers have generally retained their allure, but with some surprising fluctuations.
And while there have been few Internet retailers worth picking up from the dot-com trash heap, he said, some traditional catalog companies with Web sites, like J. Jill and Spiegel, have generally retained their value.
Others, including the University of Arizona, Duke, and the University of Texas, have included elements of other programs (including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and The Healer's Art) but have generally retained the structure and spirit of the Mind-Body Skills Groups.
Since then, the two have generally been retained as distinct species, as supported by further research; a 1994 study even found the two to occur at some of the same places (in sympatry) in southern Texas and nearby Tamaulipas, Mexico.
The prediction of water retention points by first predicting VG parameters has generally over-estimated the retained amount of water between −5 and −50 cm matric potentials and under-estimated it between −200 and −16 000 cm matric potentials.
While retaining his puppy dog enthusiasm, he is less excitable, and has generally had a good tournament.
Throughout his ascent to secular sainthood, Tebow has generally seemed less like a muscled-up Jesus Christ than a thick-necked Chauncey Gardiner, retaining a general, genial dimness.
Mayor Young, 57, has appointed a new planning commissioner, retained what many say is an effective police commissioner and supported a school superintendent who has generally received good marks from all sides.
