Word: keeping
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Ubert was replaced by the freshman Forman, who managed to keep the Crusader bats quiet until the ninth inning...
...address the success of its tactics. There is no standard set of tactics that is right for every movement or for every point in history. Without an overwhelmingly polarizing issue such as Vietnam to unite behind, there is no easy formula for increasing political activity. The point is to keep trying...
...meantime, Kon, now at the Institute for Ethnography, hopes to use his new status as a member of the Soviet Academy of Pedagogical Sciences to keep pushing for change. At Kon's urging, the April issue of the magazine Semya (Family) will begin to run a translation of the no-holds-barred French children's sexual-instruction book La Vie Sexuelle (The Sexual Life). Three different publications this year will include excerpts from the works of Freud. "Readers will be enchanted," Kon says. "They will think it is the latest thing." Perhaps, he suggests, the excerpts should be accompanied...
...port of Valdez. Once he had departed from the ship, Hazelwood left the bridge and went to his cabin while the vessel was still moving along the jagged shores of Prince William Sound. That was in violation of Exxon policy, which calls for the captain to keep command until the ship is on the open ocean. Hazelwood turned over the steering of the ship to Third Mate Gregory Cousins, who is not licensed by the Coast Guard to pilot a vessel through Alaskan coastal waters...
...that it was taxed to the limit when it cleaned up a small spill of a mere 1,500 bbl. in January. Workers who had been hired to devote full time to combatting oil spills were replaced by people whose primary duties lay elsewhere. The state government failed to keep Alyeska up to the mark; the legislature denied its watchdog agency funds for inspecting oil terminals and was pretty much reduced to taking the oil companies' word for their preparedness. The Coast Guard too has sustained deep budget cuts and, says a friendly observer, "is held together with baling wire...