Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Consider also that assistant professors of four-year colleges earn a national average of $12,600, while postal workers earn an average of $13,400. As you surmised, only New York, the case you have cited as an example of disastrous municipal mismanagement, can be said to have kept pace with the Postal Service in this regard...
...taverns. One of them was the Clock Bar, a joint that offered free meals and booze to cops who overlooked the flourishing trade in hard drugs carried on there (one report said 646 bags of heroin were seized there in an eight-month period last year). Yet the Clock kept ticking; it did not close until a plainclothesman was shot to death near by last summer...
...industry, that economic no-man's land where rapacious monopolists reign supreme, the price of a gallon of gas rose less than 70% during the same period. Though it increased its prices almost six times more than the oil giants did theirs, the U.S. Postal Service kept losing money at a continually accelerating rate, while the executive boardrooms of the petroleum industry filled up with "obscene" profits...
...supporting the Star of Bethlehem, mechanical of course, proclaiming its message to the world. Most people, including L.S., label the display "garish" or even "obscene," but I, as a member of the heathens to whom it is directed, find it absolutely enchanting. With no regard for cost, this gentleman kept up the display into January. But even after it was taken down and packed away for the next pursuit of the millenium, the traffic signs the police department had thoughtfully placed remained. To avoid accidents caused by gawking motorists, Christians and heathens alike, the yellow diamonds read "Caution Slow Christmas...
...teams traded scores in the middle period, Swift converting on a power play for his second and the Crimson's fourth goal, and that was that. Harvard forechecking kept Brown bottled up in its own end, and even when the Bruins did break free, they were oftentimes more intent on fighting than scoring...