Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders were willing to let the President maintain existing troop strength for more than a year. No more than 23% of the public and 18% of the leaders agreed to leave troops at the present 500,000 level for more than a year, although 10% were willing to keep them there for as long as five years. Nor are many more willing to tolerate what is reported to be the President's fallback position on troop reductions. Only 27% of the public and 25% of the leaders agreed to keeping a substantially lower 200,000-troop level in Viet...
...environment, created an unspeakable thermonuclear arsenal, etc., and hasn't eliminated a single big problem-not even poverty, which it could eliminate easily. Yet most Americans remain convinced that our individual and societal problems are still basically technical, that science and government will solve them, that they need only keep the radical troublemakers from making more troubles and defer all power to the experts, the men on top who know best. (After all, they've put Americans on the moon.) The technocracy in the United States retains the security of "a grand cultural imperative which is beyond question, beyond discussion...
...project out of the University's endowment funds. Though the GSD suggested that Harvard could loan money from its endowment at five per cent interest, Harvard officials point out that endowment funds currently gain about 7 per cent a year and argue that it is vital to keep this return high in an era when all divisions of the University are increasing their demands for funds. "If you take unrestricted money which is now earning interest and use it to meet operating expenses, you just increase the size of the deficit; it's a vicious circle." Wiggins says...
Hollis B. Chenery, professor of Economics, replied that a PR election would "be simple and would seem to be fair ... It is hard for the Dean to be as fair as a representative process." Sims said the PR system was the only way to keep a disciplined minority from taking over the elections...
...easy for the spy to find the doorbells, because they were all at the same place on the houses. None of the people seemed angry at his intrusion, maybe because most of them keep him out of their houses. He couldn't even tell their truths from their fictions...