Word: keeping
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...week was about a 3 on a scale of 10 -- no great threat to civilization. Yet there is a law in the exercise of power: whatever the true dimensions of a crisis, it tends to fill the time and space of the moment. Bush needs to understand that and keep things in perspective...
...these regimes have cynically cultivated since taking power. Ways must be found to teach people that a gain for one is not necessarily a loss for another, that long-term improvements may require short-term sacrifices, that some changes are for the good, that it is their responsibility to keep local authorities in line. Only that sociological change will make possible the economic and political reforms that Gorbachev, Deng and other reformers insist are necessary. Thus far, no Communist regime has found a way out of this dilemma. Lenin once said, "Give me four years to teach the children...
Anyone who can boss Los Angeles for 16 straight years without falling on his face needs a bit of luck, a bit of skill or a thick coating of Teflon -- and maybe all three. Through four terms, Mayor Tom Bradley, 71, managed to keep his troubled nation-within-a-state from disintegrating completely without himself succumbing to hubris or, worse, scandal. A diffident, dedicated man, Bradley seemed the personification of rectitude. He never got too big for his britches. Bad judgment was something else...
...What's to keep them from nominating Fidel Castro next year?"--John P. Reardon, Jr. '60, outgoing athletic director and new executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association, according to an Alumni Association committee member who asked not to be identified. Reardon was referring to the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) campaign for the Board of Overseers, whose slate of candidates this year includes South African Archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond M. Tutu...
Kleinfelder has tried to keep her players in game shape by scheduling exhibition games against lacrosse alumni and the men's JV team. But she admitted nothing is as good preparation for a real game as a real game...